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How about just make the caveat of using a personal computer be that if you don't install security patches made availible by the vendor and then get hit by something like a worm you are ineligible for law enforcement involvement on your behalf on that issue. If people don't take responsibility for their computer usage, then it shouldn't be protected. Stop pandering to impatient little $hits that are too lazy to learn how to use their computer. How many people that have sympathy for the vast majority of computer idiots out there would go ballistic if they were standing in line at a gun store and the guy in front of them told them that he's buying a gun, doesn't know how to use it and doesn't ever plan to go get proper training in its use? Too many people here act like they're the "poor little guy who just doesn't have time to learn how to use a computer." While I don't advocate any restriction on computer ownership, how many would be sympathetic if a teenage or yuppy driver crashed into them because he/she was too lazy to learn their car's control and get a feel for how it responds to them? It's about responsibility, something the vast majority of computer users don't think apply to them. I have always been willing to teach people how to get a good solid understanding of how things work so they can be responsible users, but if they ever take me up on it, they just tell me they "just don't have time to learn that." Fine, if you get h@X0r3D because you couldn't be bothered to let me teach you, don't come crying to me and I'll be damn near ready to take a baseball bat to your head if I see you complaining to legislators because you want new legislation so you can be both ignorant and still engage in whatever behavior you want regardless of how dangerous it is. Protecting John Q Citizen from things like the various email worms that go out if John Q Citizen refuses to take the educational opportunities availible to him is not the government's obligation.