According to BBC News, Aaron Caffrey has been cleared of a computer attack on a US port authority’s computers. His defence hinged upon his insistance that someone else did it using his computer via a Trogan computer “back-door”. In my opinion, it is good that he was acquitted. With the state of security on Windows computers, the fact that an attack originated at a given computer is certainly no proof that the owner of the computer is to blame. On the flip side, there certainly should be some onus on computer owners and Microsoft to ensure that computers can’t be hijacked so easily. It would help if Microsoft wrote software with a security mindset and so we wouldn’t have to deal with so many patches on what seems like a weekly basis. Anyone who runs a Windows computer without a firewall and up to date virus scanner deserves all they get anyway!

Incidentally, I installed 7 security patches on our live server today :)