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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : John Edwards <isplist@adam.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:37:34 +1030

Re: ZDNet: New worm burrows into Aust systems

John Edwards wrote:
> David Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> I suppose that bandwidth providers aren't going to charge for the traffic
>> generated by administrators who let things like the Love Bug or such
>> through, or the MS SQL worm, or the XYZ "bandwidth waster" because of
>> their altruistic nature and understanding that it's really not the
>> administrator's fault.
> 
> Why not?


Because the wrong people are being charged.  The cost of the bandwidth
consumed by a DoS should really fall on the transmitter of the traffic
(it's their systems that are not secured).  At the moment the cost
falls upon the receiver of the traffic (even if there machines have
been secured).


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