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Suing Over Slammer
Mark Rasch, 2003-02-10

The Slammer worm was successful because thousands of users didn't patch Microsoft's security holes. Should we sue them all?

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Liability and Buffer Overflows... 2003-02-10
Nicholas Weaver
One related question: Although a patch was available, buffer overflows have been a known problem for over 2 decades. It's like "We provided a fix for the bridge which you didn't deploy, but built it wrong in the first place", the engineering firm would still probably be sued into the ground for gr...

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