Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?

It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…

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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?