http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6313-5070697.html
While the article focusses on the motivation of malware writers, it also makes two other points worth hoisting inboard:
1) Any cure for this problem is likely to be almost as bad as the disease, at the very best; and
2) As its display of punishments meted out to those convicted of wrongdoing makes entirely clear, there is no proportion between the seriousness of the crime and the severity of the punishment.
I have made my minority opinions clear on this in previous comments, but once again, the overall theme is arresting: the degree to which the contemporary legal system is simply inadequate as a tool for dealing with information technology matters, a situation not likely to receive any rapid remedy.
Posted by jho at October 8, 2003 10:48 AM