[FYI] US: New Laws - Thou Shalt Patch

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45692,00.html

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New Laws: Thou Shalt Patch  

By Jeffrey Benner  

2:00 a.m. July 31, 2001 PDT  

With no real power to force action, the FBI's National Infrastructure 
Protection Center often finds itself waving its arms, hoping for 
attention when a threat like the Code Red virus emerges. Often, the 
warnings go unheeded.  

But that may be changing. Federal rules that will make it obligatory 
for specific sectors to download virus patches are already here, and 
more are coming.  

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