Linked by John O'Sullivan on Tue 7th Oct 2003 18:42 UTC
Microsoft has a little liability problem called Windows. Many are no doubt aware of a would-be class-action lawsuit launched last week in California. The suit targets Microsoft over security problems. The plaintiff is a woman who had her identity stolen. Details are
here. (NYTimes, free registration required)
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Quote --- "While I think MS doesnt pay enough attention to security, they can't be blamed for holes. No software is perfect, and that's the truth. Now, if they're going to prove MS purposely put bugs in Windows, thats a different story."
I disagree. There is an important, though also very fine, line between an attack they have no conrtol over, and negligence. As an example, take Outlook and its past problem of auto-running attatchments. If a trojan gets on someones system because Outlook auto-ran the attatchment by default, partial blame SHOULD go to MS. If, on the other hand, it does not auto-run it by default, but the user enabled that feature or simply saved and opened the attatchment themself, then the user gets that partial blame instead of MS. Of course, the other part of the blame goes to the attacker.
The question on how this effects GNU and BSD licensed software is a much more difficult one however. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.