This story has been all over the tech web + CNN, etc. But you pick up the one issue that I find most interesting to debate: what about unauthorized pre-emptive

This story has been all over the tech web + CNN, etc. But you pick up the one issue that I find most interesting to debate: what about unauthorized pre-emptive strikes against the worm. Michael Argast at Sophos says that such intervention "can cause" worse problems than the worm. Yes. If written poorly. And tested insufficiently. Maybe a legal change is needed: to allow certain organizations to have government clearance to intervene ONCE sufficiently tested. As for the occasional victims for whom there is some unpleasant side-effect to the de-worming: maybe that's the price of practicing "unsafe sex" ? In some territories it might be appropriate to impound cars whose owners leave keys in ignition (as an "attractive nuisance"). Thoughts?