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Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-for-using-windows dept.

jonman_d writes "The Sasser worm has recently disabled the computer systems of Britain's Coastguard. Naturally, this event raises even more doubts over the reliability of Microsoft software in critical systems. Moreover, it raises questions of responsibility: if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"

3 of 733 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, for fuck sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like no system except a Microsoft system has ever gone down. The first fucking worm ever written was for Unix, nerds. You lot sound like a bunch of stuck records.

  2. Re:Oh come on, be a man by pe1rxq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The house owner should be held responsible for leaving unshielded wires which caused the kid to electrocute himself.

    Jeroen

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  3. The sad sad world by Sheepdot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Be prepared.

    There is not much difference in the car evolution and the computer evolution. With computers, we're entering the "regulation and bureaucracy" phase that hit vehicles in the early 1970s all the way through the 80s.

    The computer aspect is going to involve "Government Agency #31337" full of washed up NSA agents ready for a life of peace and tranquility busting 'corporations' who will know how to pay them off and small business and personal (yes, open source) programmers who will be unable to release code that doesn't pay some stupid government certification.