
By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 20 May 2004
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Name
Knut Boehnert
Location
Nottingham
Occupation
Business Systems Analyst
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Stopping someone from breaking the law by breaking the law?
Wild West scenario: If you shoot my friend, I shoot you?
With laws governing the cyberspace more and more how long will self defense be an argument to bail yourself out?
There are lot of moral and legal questions about this approach. If I do like the one attacking me - am I not just as bad and rotten? My actions are just as bad and legally unjustified then.
The only solution is really a global defense organisation working like a defense ministry an that is supported by all governments and funded by companies and run by staff from software companies.
Realistic? Maybe when the world is united.
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jfb3
Stopping someone from breaking the law by breaking...
Knut Boehnert
Have you seen Terminator 3?
The AI responsible ...
dotbob
Totally agree with jfb3.. there is nothing intelli...
mc
Sounds like a phagocytic cell. That is a cell, suc...
Simon Heywood
Pah! Orthodoxy and ignorance - heresy here.
Com...
Anonymous
Reading the comment about breaking the law, it see...
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Microsoft or a government has probably created a "...
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I'm in agreement with Anonymous of Bedford and I h...
Anonymous
Firewalls people? A firewall will stop most of the...
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