Re: Lloyds to offer hacker insurance

From: Steve Bellovin (smbat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 29 1998 - 12:23:15 PDT

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My expectation is that the insurers -- who have money at risk, but also
lots of legal resources -- will sue a negligent software vendor or two.
But I fear they'll also sue the attacker's ISP, on the "sue everyone
in range" theory.  The former is probably justifiable; the latter is not.

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