On 9/26/06, Nick Wiltshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The disclaimer of warranty was the first thing that came to my mind... > > with humorous consequences. > > > > Malware that has an EULA probably has that statement in it, right? > > > > "Client": Hey! your program stole my bank password! > > > > "Vendor": I said no implied warranty, what do you want from me? > > > > Of course, I'm not really being serious here, but it is a funny thought. > > > > that's one thing, however if the recipient of that password then used it to > withdraw money from your account unauthorized, that would then move to > criminal law. With his source code you could definitely proove intent, but > beyond that I dunno.
Yeah, that's why I wasn't being serious :-) > > The other thing is if you are using reputable projects the odds of someone > writing malware into it is slim. I don't see many criminals declaring their > guilt in such a blatant way. > > I assert, without any evidence, OSS is less likely to contain malware. Now that makes me wonder if those Sony rootkit-CDs had a disclaimer of warranty. -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
