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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 838842">I agree that computing safety really need to be taught at an early age and constantly reinforced. Its really the big gap in all of this IMHO.The rest of your point is a little extreme and while I fully understand what you mean, it will never happen. The issue in all of this is assessing damage, what does that mean in all of this?, what are the consequences of said damage? So on and so forth. As I said previously, proving that they did it with full intent of harming you, which will be next to near impossible to prove, would be the only way of successfully winning any court case. If the damage is that you have to reformat your computer, but you suffered no financial harm, or none of your personal data was harvested in anyway, I don&#039;t know what you aim to get of of it, hypothetically speaking.The difference between owning/driving a car, owning a gun, etc.. and this is that the former has the very well understood notion that someone, or someones can die from irresponsible use. Hetting infected with malware doesn&#039;t have that consequence, so in essence it gets put on a different pedestal. If we do this with computers, might as well do it with stove tops, bbqs and such as fires happen all the time when they are left on and unattended for an extended amount of time.Anyways, this has gone off topic too much, it was a great friendly discussion. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 838842"] I agree that computing safety really need to be taught at an early age and constantly reinforced. Its really the big gap in all of this IMHO. The rest of your point is a little extreme and while I fully understand what you mean, it will never happen. The issue in all of this is assessing damage, what does that mean in all of this?, what are the consequences of said damage? So on and so forth. As I said previously, proving that they did it with full intent of harming you, which will be next to near impossible to prove, would be the only way of successfully winning any court case. If the damage is that you have to reformat your computer, but you suffered no financial harm, or none of your personal data was harvested in anyway, I don't know what you aim to get of of it, hypothetically speaking. The difference between owning/driving a car, owning a gun, etc.. and this is that the former has the very well understood notion that someone, or someones can die from irresponsible use. Hetting infected with malware doesn't have that consequence, so in essence it gets put on a different pedestal. If we do this with computers, might as well do it with stove tops, bbqs and such as fires happen all the time when they are left on and unattended for an extended amount of time. Anyways, this has gone off topic too much, it was a great friendly discussion. :)(y) [/QUOTE]

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