Should M$ be held financially responsible for damaging the national infrastructure?
 

Xbox = Good

Windows = Bad?

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<b>Microsoft Worm Crashes Nuclear Plant</b>
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767
- The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

<b>Virus shuts down passenger and freight train traffic</b>
http://www.csx.com/?fuseaction=compa...2&news_year=-1
- CSX Transportation's (CSXT) information technology systems experienced significant slowdowns early today after a computer virus infected the network. The cause was believed to be a worm virus similar to those that have infected the systems of other major companies and agencies in recent days.


<b>SoBig worm not slowing down yet</b>
- NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Businesses and other computer users haven't seen the worst of the SoBig worm, which may have caused an estimated $50 million in damage already, computer security experts said Thursday.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/21/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

they should, but who is going to pursue them?
good luck if you wanna try :thumbsup

they cant possible pay up for the whole damage.

and taking down such company would hurt the economy to a much greater extend

What about the recent blackouts? Weren't they because of M$ too?

Companies should hire proficient IT people, screw blaming someone else.

should ford be held responsible if someone decides to use their trucks to drive over a school yard full of kids?

are gun makers resposible when criminals go on killing sprees?

nope.... just b/c they make made it and someone misuses it, doesn't mean its their fault. shit, lets start suing lumber companies for paper cuts, those bastards

wonder how many did this and what it cost to fix

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