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Barberton, OH | reply to keith2468
Re: Where are the FTC and FCC in all this? perfectly put. Keith
Software authors writing legitimate software cant be held 100% responsible for bugs that crop up in the software. I made a point useing calulator one of the smallest apps included with windows. There have been 1 or 2 exploits to crash calc these were exploitable with plain old html based on 1.0 spec. It didnt matter what browser was used if it followed html 1.0 spec it would cause calc to crash. There have been many other examples of such things not all crash triggers were aimed at ms products. One could cause a little messenger app wrote in vb to crash app was called powerpager. Has been other examples as well. So who in this case would be to blaim MS beause vb is a crappy programing language? The people who made the browser that read the code that caused the crash? Or the people who came up with the html 1.0 spec? Who should be held responsible for the crashes? None of those listed thats for sure. The people who Knowingly exploit the flaw should be the ones held responsible for their actions.
Now should ms do something about it? Sure they should when they have the time to do so.
The ones who should be takeing imidiate action is as you said ftc and fcc. Simple fact unless these gov agencies do something even when this sec hole is patched by ms another will be found and used. Windows code base is huge as is wmps and any thing related to windows.
Heres a example for you im a mmorpg gamer currently playing rubies of eventide. If i found a exploitable bug and used it to help my char out and make him in to a god in the game and then got susspended for my use of that exploit who is to blaim. Me or the developers for not finding that bug that i used to cheat? Obviously it would be me not the developers.
Infact bugs that are exploited in games can damage all the chars on a game server in some cases. So not only would i be able to get suspended i could infact be in deep legal trouble.
Personaly if i was microsoft what i would do is file suit agaisnt these companies useing exploits and the like to infect other peoples computers. And i would make a huge show of it to i would get it all over the media tv radio and print (print includeing internet mags).
Id say hey look the bug is there we know it is a bad one but there are other bugs that are much more important that need to be addressed first.
The above statement is most probably true. Unless you work for ms as a programer and are privy to that knowlage you have no way of knowing what they are doing.
Even if ms lost such a suit it would still be enough to scare some spyware authors to the point where the would stop writing the applications.
MS tells us to not visit sites we dont trust great advice. Im bettign most of these video clips that are trying to install this stuff are infact porn sites. Every one should know by now not to download any thing from porn sites they are not trust worthy in any way shape or form period.
Again ms should fix this as soon as possible. But the blaim does not fall only to them it is ours ms in some small way and the authors of the sites and apps.
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