Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard

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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Re:He should be

[the_real_nugator]

In that case Microsoft should be charged with being an accessory to murder.