BBC fails to understand mens rea

[Wendy M. Grossman]

James Firth wrote:
> Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Moreover, an alternative would be to inform the owners of the infected
>> machines, perhaps by overlaying their screensavers as the BBC did. It
>> would be much harder to screw up some simple task like that.
> 
> Except where someone had paid for their screensaver or wallpaper then
> alleges that the anti-virus company was responsible for a material loss
> (whereas we all know the computer owner should have backed up, should have
> ensured better anti-malware precautions, yada, yada...)
> 
> Personally I would say the least-risk option is to disable the bot, i.e. not
> disinfect the machine entirely but disable the network elements, as you
> first suggested.

I think the least risk optiopn is not to have done it in the first 
place. If I were one of the affected people I would be LIVID.

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