What if someone does damage to my machine, maliciously or unintentionally, then claims they were just trying to stop a worm that was running on it? Which, of course, I can't verify because they've already destroyed the evidence?

Alternatively, this would give hackers the right to break into whatever machine they wanted as long as they planted a dead worm carcass in the process to 'prove' it was defensive.


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