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Blaster Writer Busted!
Fett101:
quote:how
Faust:
Yeah Fett is kinda right... The GPL has a pretty obvious "no responsibility!" clause. I think a few Unix providers may actually take responsibility for their software - it would certainly help a paranoid manager in the US administration (or a nuke plant...) choose. Does QNX have a similar clause? Would be interesting to find out as they do seem to want their product to be used in hospitals...
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
However funny your stance may be. That's a standard point in EULA's. I'm sure that all the Linux distros, and OSX, and every piece of software ever made has had the same exact statement in thier EULA's.
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To a certain extent that is true. The EULA's are getting bigger and more verbose and strangely, more ambiguios.
At the same time though, I think Microsoft should not be allowed off the hook so easily. Time and time again M$ have professed that their OS is secure only to be proved otherwise and not only that but deliberately so. Verbally in press releases Gates enthuses how secure XP has become, "security it's our number one priority" etc. Bullshit. It's no more secure, probably less so, than previous versions and XP is a liability. At the very least, the consumer should be able to to get their money back or some kind of compensation, or Gates should be arrested for fraud. His lies are on a par with Clinton, the master liar.
It is a curious thing that the software industry seems to be protected from any kind of liability when it screws up.
[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: HibbeeBoy ]
sime:
OK so they got the bragging script kiddie, it may not be so easy to catch the pros who created the originals viri / worms...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32591.html
Sime
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by sime:
Ok,
so it's not the guy that wrote Blaster it's the guy who wrote blasterb i.e. he is supposed to have altered the original blaster code.
The person who created the original trojan is apparently still out there...
Sime
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so this software is open source?
can it be downloaded from sourceforge.net?
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