From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 06:21:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0DE268.2000207@mail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:21:44 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: <3D0C7C0B.5000707@mail.com> <27085883.0206161028.276e62e4@posting.google.com> <3D0D31D2.2000104@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1024320105 8955 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26144 Date: 2002-06-17T09:21:44-04:00 List-Id: AG wrote: > Well, to continue the car similarity from another post - sure, any type of > a car tyre may and will blow up now and then. The question is - was it > faulty to beging with? Was there a better alternative? Did the manufacurer > take a due care? As a number of recent successful law-suits show, the legal > opinion seems to be not in your favour... But hacker attacks are more like someone slashing tires, or perhaps taking a car meant for normal highway use and driving it for thousands of miles over rough terrain.