On TV I saw that they are already blaming the Worm/MyDoom.A2 on the Linux movement making war on SCO and M$ :-(
I sincerely doubt that... however, U.S. laws state that people who are hacking, can be charged and persecuted as terrorists. I sincerely doubt that Linux community as large is mobilizing against SCO as I sincerely doubt they have the capability of such mobilation, and would rather expect that the current political environment is using state terrorism against the internet community, for the purpose of being able to control the flow of information, that crosses it. Who is smarter on the long run, remains to be seen. However, one of the things that can be done is to ascertain that rooted boxes are not allowed to be email relays. And that such boxes be blocked, when that occurs (called a blacklist). However, this does not seem to be the case in many situations and especially this past month or so. I've been bombarded with email from a rooted email server, tiscali.it ... with hoaxes, that come from a dialin line, at that ISP. And few of these "relays" are running linux ...