Aussies: Get a virus, no Web for you! – Yahoo! News. Does it sound reasonable to you that you should be required to have basic anti-virus and and security software installed in order to access the Internet? And, that if your machine gets a virus, you can be quarantined (the way Syracuse University does to users of its network)? Just such a policy is being considered in Australia, but the blogger at the above link calls it backwards: blaming the victim.
How do you deal with an epidemic like the spread of computer malware? Australia thinks it has the answer: Blame the victim.
I’m not entirely joking: A new plan floated by the country’s House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications suggests that Australia should allow ISPs to mandate anti-virus and firewall protection among their customers. If a customer does get a malware infection, the ISP would be allowed to cut off that customer’s connection until the problem was fixed.
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