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I would honestly think freezing airports, hospitals and other services for days would cause a lot of legal trouble.

At least that's what would happen if an experienced hacker did the same thing.

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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 14 points 4 weeks ago

EULA. Limited warranty and liability.

Depends on what you agreed.

Also: xkcd 2347: Dependency

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

According to the article, there is a question of gross negligence, which circumstance could have the effect of nullifying the contractual limitation of liability.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

And anyone who knows what they're doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there's a reason there's a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network... Input validation is a thing, and all that.

They just weren't very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process

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