[LINK] Legal issues around security [was Question: How do you protect Windows?]

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:25, David Lochrin wrote:
>    My previous message was supposed to be offlink but addressing carelessness resulted in its appearance here.  Sorry about that....
> 
>    On a related subject, does anyone know of good anti-virus software for Linux systems?  I understand anything available actually looks for MS Windows virii.
> 

clamav or amavis

>    I'm wondering about most bank's terms & conditions, which include advice that anti-virus software and a firewall should be used.  If one were to have a problem which was actually unrelated to the client system, though perhaps not provably so, could a bank fasten on lack of AV-software to wriggle out of its responsibilities?
> 
The onus of proof would be theirs.

>    Looking at it another way, if Bank-X requires their clients to use a notably insecure O/S, could it be sued for a client's losses in some other context which result from use of that O/S?
> 
I think something along that line happened in Germany a few years back. 
The bank limited security to 40 bits even though there was 128 bit
security available.  I think they were found liable for not using a more
secure access that was readily available.

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