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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?"

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  1. Re:If the programmer at Microsoft... by prockcore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "How many of u expect your cars to be engineered such that they will run safely and properly 99.9% of the time"

    Your college professor has a very strange accent. Does he normally sound like a 13 year old AOL user?