Re: Lloyds to offer hacker insurance

Steve Bellovin (smbresearch.att.com)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:23:15 -0400

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
• Next message: Stout, William: "Sessions, virtual memory & crashing 32-bit O.S. firewalls"
• Previous message: Bruce K. Marshall: "Re: Network Security Certification"
• In reply to: Paul D. Robertson: "Re: Network Security Certification"
• Next in thread: Todd Radermacher: "RE: Lloyds to offer hacker insurance"

My expectation is that the insurers -- who have money at risk, but also
lots of legal resources -- will sue a negligent software vendor or two.
But I fear they'll also sue the attacker's ISP, on the "sue everyone
in range" theory. The former is probably justifiable; the latter is not.

• Next message: Stout, William: "Sessions, virtual memory & crashing 32-bit O.S. firewalls"
• Previous message: Bruce K. Marshall: "Re: Network Security Certification"
• In reply to: Paul D. Robertson: "Re: Network Security Certification"
• Next in thread: Todd Radermacher: "RE: Lloyds to offer hacker insurance"

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sat Jul 17 1999 - 07:10:48 CDT