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Re: Compromised machines liable for damage?
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:17:11 -0500
To beat a dead horse just a little harder the problem I have is when a certain company kept distributing software with security flaws specifically because they're profiting from those flaws. For example, graphics libraries which accept binary code chunks to be executed in kernel mode without limits for support of quick screen updates in games considered of marketing importance. Blaming it on the games vendors seems inadequate, particularly over several years and releases of each. That's just pure economics and, hence, profiting on others' serious pain. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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- RE: Compromised machines liable for damage?, (continued)
- RE: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 26)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Marshall Eubanks (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Jason Frisvold (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? JC Dill (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Jason Frisvold (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? JC Dill (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Per Heldal (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Barry Shein (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Richard A Steenbergen (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 27)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Jason Frisvold (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Joseph S D Yao (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Douglas Otis (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 28)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 29)
- Re: Compromised machines liable for damage? Owen DeLong (Dec 29)