AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies

msblack writes " Australian news sources are reporting that the communication regulators will begin notifying ISPs of infected customer computers. In a three-month pilot program, the Australian Communications & Media Authority will identify zombie computers and ask their owners to clean them or risk being disconnected. When will U.S. regulators and ISPs get on board?"

Comments

Re:No regulation for me.

[Pig Hogger]

With US Government control it will be like your system is a Zombie and Fix it. To most people who only have a passing idea what a virus or spyware/addware is, most really won't know much how to fix it if it doesn't require clicking one button and then selecting the default for all questions.

So, therefore, the government should not check that anyone drives on the road with a haywire jalopy, and if it breaks down, crashes and kills a widow driving her three orphans to soccer practice, it's though luck for the widow?

Government control adds rigidly defined rules to a flexible universe and often will cause more harm then good.

Here is a real libertarian argument.

Remember kids: libertarians want a minimal state whose sole function is to protect them from the wrath of their slaves.