Great. Now we'll all have to load up a keystroke sniffer so we can record our rythim. After all, if my hand's in a cast, I'm still going to want to listen to music.
You're saying that because the "innocent" system has vulnerabilities, they deserve anything that happens to them through those vulnerabilities? That must mean that because the 5 year old next door doesn't wear full body armor, he deserves to be shot. Even if I agreed with that philosophy, which I certainly do not, it still opens the owner of retaliatory defense systems to law suits.
Automated defense systems are typically designed to parry crack attempts, not offer retaliatory strikes. In the case of a spoofed IP address or other concealment methods, it's entirely possible an automated retaliation could strike at an innocent machine rather than the guilty party. Somehow I doubt I'd enjoy being the target of a lawsuit if someone figured out how to make my automated "defense" system knock out a third party.
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Great. Now we'll all have to load up a keystroke sniffer so we can record our rythim. After all, if my hand's in a cast, I'm still going to want to listen to music.
You're saying that because the "innocent" system has vulnerabilities, they deserve anything that happens to them through those vulnerabilities? That must mean that because the 5 year old next door doesn't wear full body armor, he deserves to be shot. Even if I agreed with that philosophy, which I certainly do not, it still opens the owner of retaliatory defense systems to law suits.
Automated defense systems are typically designed to parry crack attempts, not offer retaliatory strikes. In the case of a spoofed IP address or other concealment methods, it's entirely possible an automated retaliation could strike at an innocent machine rather than the guilty party. Somehow I doubt I'd enjoy being the target of a lawsuit if someone figured out how to make my automated "defense" system knock out a third party.