Microsoft wants us to be taxed to fix security issues in Windows
Well that how the Daily Mail would report it if they did stories on tech.
Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney spoke at the RSA security conference. He compares connecting to the internet with the health care system where general taxation covers things like education programs and quarantine. Marco at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/109 takes the analogy further and says that connecting to the internet is like driving your car with bald tires, you are a danger to yourself and other road users and that the police are paid out of general taxation to stop this. He then points out that general taxation is not used to fund the replacement of faulty tires however.
My solution to this is that as 95%+ of infected machines are Microsoft Windows machines so we tax MS per Windows license sold and this money is ring fenced and distributed to ISP’s who are given the job of policing the section of the internet they control. This would have a dual purpose, immediately ISP’s would have the funds to tackles infected windows machines on their network reducing spam. Secondly it would give an incentive to Microsoft to fix their Operating Systems and Software to reduce the percentage of the tax they paid.
There are obviously some details to work out here but as a rough initial plan I think it has merits 
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