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Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned from the Internet
Posted on: 2010-10-06 15:54:16 By Emma Woollacott @ TG Daily Microsoft is calling for infected PCs to be quarantined from the internet, with access denied unless they can produce a 'health certificate'. In a position paper published this week, Scott Charney, the company's corporate vice president for trustworthy computing, argues that the world needs a common health policy that would prevent malware-infected machines from connecting to the internet. "This approach involves implementing a global collective defense of internet health much like what we see in place today in the world of public health," he explains. Charney cites school policies such as compulsory vaccination for students and quarantining of infected people as an example of the sort of thing he has in mind. Read on... |