In view of the recent "gimme-the-logs-or-we-fuck-you" activities
of armed men
(http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=36912&group=webcast , 
http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3013 )
what would be the legal consequence of the following:

1. A virus is designed that spreads itself in some standard way and that
deletes log files of popular http server implementations.

2. Files are deleted when virus receives a packet on a known port.

3. Detection of virus requires more than average admin can do.

So when logs are requested an outside "3rd" party can maliciously
remove logs. The first several ISPs to contract this virus will
probably get fucked, but by then it should become obvious that the
ISP cannot effectively control the virus.

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