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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Will:
This is not the case of some unknown error slipping up in a release version of software. This is a case of negligence on MS side - credible security researchers have notified MS that some of their design decision might cause security problems, then security problems exploiting those design errors surface and never really stop appearing as new problems in implementation of a broken concept are found. Futhermore, patches are often ineffective and mask the problem instead of fixing it. It may be understandable that not every bug can be found, but if a sequence of events like this happens, I think the company should be considered guilty of gross negiligence.