Comments on: Zombie Generation: The spreading infection http://stilgherrian.com/internet/zombie-generation-the-spreading-infection/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Sat, 19 May 2012 21:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: yewenyi http://stilgherrian.com/internet/zombie-generation-the-spreading-infection/#comment-31722 yewenyi Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:18:04 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=6189#comment-31722 I think you can take the virus definition further. There are the same issues in other industries and I think that the computer industry should look outside. In medicine all of these issues arise. Do you allow an infected individual to roam the streets. The answer is no if the risk is very serious, that is people will die. Bit otherwise you warn people the be careful and seek treatment. Also I think the whole idea of filtering is back to front. Why doesn't a ISP filter the traffic coming out of its user base when that traffic is known to be, say spam? I know that the clever spammer will hide it to make it look legitimate, but it should be part of the tool of solutions. It will work in some cases. I think you can take the virus definition further. There are the same issues in other industries and I think that the computer industry should look outside. In medicine all of these issues arise. Do you allow an infected individual to roam the streets. The answer is no if the risk is very serious, that is people will die. Bit otherwise you warn people the be careful and seek treatment.

Also I think the whole idea of filtering is back to front. Why doesn’t a ISP filter the traffic coming out of its user base when that traffic is known to be, say spam? I know that the clever spammer will hide it to make it look legitimate, but it should be part of the tool of solutions. It will work in some cases.

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