> Hi,
>
> first in other countries you may prevent any illegal action against
> yourself and others with *reasonable* meassures under the
> "selfdefense" regulations.
>
> But in the case of LaBrea you do not do anything against the other
> computer. It is more like your neighbour allways parks his car in
> your garage and you make the entrance smaller so that your car will
> still fit in but his car will not. I do not think you have to pay for the
> demages on his car if he again tries to illegally park his car in your
> garage.

Claiming ignorance ("I didn't know Labrea would crash his PC") will be
tricky as in many courts with a civil suit you have to prove your innocence.
None of this "beyond a reasonable doubt" stuff/etc as with a criminal case.
I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a fortune 500 companies
lawsuit after all their web servers or whatever got hosed by my machine. Try
to remember here, these attacks are NOT intentional. This is a
Socual/Policy issue, NOT really a technology issue. Anyways I'm done on this
topic for now.

BTW analogies suck. This is nothing like car parking/trespassing.

> mike

-Kurt

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