Experts are calling for product liability for software
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| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09
Related:
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| Ah, from the horse's mouth: Microsoft just might be held legally
| responsible for selling software that is insecure.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006112223522439
Live Onecare loses own antivirus and a new kernel in SP1
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| Onecare is an antivirus application as well as antispyware and
| antiphishing and lord knows what else not-very-well-tested
| additional functionality. So Onecare effectively lost track of
| some parts of itself. What is it with Microsoft, they're
| definitely getting worse.
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http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/live-onecare-loses-own-antivirus-and-a-new-kernel-in-sp1/
http://tinyurl.com/2ely8a
Microsoft confirms OneCare zaps Outlook, Outlook Express e-mail
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| Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live
| OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish
| from Outlook and Outlook Express.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012499
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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