Joe St Sauver, Ph.D. - compromised computers - nobody is responsible

Joe St Sauver, Ph.D. presentation on an electronic crime conference in San Francisco. He talked about the responsibility for compromised computers. This is really an interesting point, because it seems if nobody would take care of a PC that is infected with bad software.

the users - No.
the ISP's - No.
the Software manufacturers - No.
the Government - No.

And for the government this is really a point. As in the real world the government would protect its people against enemies, what about the digital world?

Read the full article at arstechnica
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-internet2-secu...

Download his presentation (Powerpoint)
"We Need a Cyber CDC or a Cyber World Health Organization"
http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Ejoe/ecrime-summit/ecrime-summit.ppt

I also saved a PDF version of the presentation for everybody who's computer is not 'compromised' by Powerpoint. ;-)

You can download the file 'JOE_ST_SAUVER_ecrime-summit.pdf' at the end of this page.