No, this isn’t about what the Rams need to do in the off season. Tim Mullen, computer security expert, has proposed that if a malicious process on another computer is attacking your computer, you should be able to go and kill it on the other computer — what Mullen calls “strike back”. It sounds like a good idea to me – and oddly enough, Mullen has found that most of us outside the security business think so too. It’s the security experts who are having a hard time with it. The trouble with common sense is that it isn’t common.

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