Using the ILOVEYOU virus as justification for asking for sweeping new powers defies logic. Had these laws and policies been in place would it have made any difference. Most of the damage was caused by a script. I guess that makes scripts a burglary tool.

Maybe it would have made a difference if existing laws were globally accepted. If the Phillipines had laws to address the kind of malicious damage caused by ILOVEYOU, perhaps fewer people there would experiment with things like viruses.

There are lots of groups, organizations and governments that won't care if making and distirbuting nasty software is illegal or not. They'll follow their own agenda.

Just imaginge what would have happened if ILOVEYOU had been written by one of these groups. People with motivation, money, time and skills.

Perhaps ILOVEYOU did us a favour, so lets not overreact.

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