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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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Is Microsoft legally responsible 2003-02-11
Villy.Madsen@atcoitek.com
I think that laying the blame at the feet of Microsoft is short sighted. Could their products be better - absolutely. Is it realistic to expect perfection - absolutely.

In simplistic terms, If 99% goodness costs $X, then 99.9% costs 10X, and 99.99% costs more than 100x and so forth.

So the q...

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