Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)

[Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>]

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:56:33AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Apparently, this is just another example where M$ ignored reports of 
> the security vulnerability for years, and now everyone else has to pay.
> Lloyd's of London is estimating the cost at $8,000,000,000 and rising.

actually, i don't think this is strictly microsoft's fault.

the companies that "lost" that $8,000,000,000 are responsible for their own
actions.  they ignored the vulnerability reports as well.

how long would they keep a voice mail system that automatically dialed the
return number, regardless of local or long distance charges?

one would hope that incidents like this would help educate the decision
makers, but, alas, they are just sheep being gobbled up by the microsoft wolf.

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