-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 True, But, as someone mentioned, microsoft is marketing high security padlocks. If someone breaks into your business (your door was unlocked, despite the fact the security system said that all the doors were locked (as advertised)) and does damage that causes you to lose 250k, you could/should go after the security company.. Leaving your door unlocked doesn't preclude the criminal from being arrested, but if you purchased a lock under the belief it worked, and it doesn't, and that caused you damages, then the lockmaker is open to liability. Now, in the real world, you'd have INSURANCE to cover this, and I have a hunch we'll start to see more people insuring against hacking/DoS's.. - -- Matt Levine @Home: matt@deliver3.com @Work: matt@eldosales.com ICQ : 17080004 PGP : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF - -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Stewart Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:32 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') At 04:14 PM 7/25/2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
Microsoft is advertising "high security padlocks", but is instead selling locks that dont work at all.
I actually talked to an intellectual property attorney about this today... just in passing, but his remark was "Microsoft is not responsible for someone else committing criminal acts. If you leave your house unlocked, that doesn't mean it is NOT breaking and entering if someone comes in and steals things." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBO18ycsp0j1NsDQTPEQIYpACgs9Y0xhyGW39wCNa9EBI0FLRnEvgAn1Mf pZ+cSYxfPAiV6hiZutVR3pF6 =u4pq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----