It was illegal for Firestone to withhold information because it irresponsibly cost lives.
It wasn't that long ago (less than 3 years?) that a Navy warship was dead in the water because of an NT bug. Considering the current level of technology in everything we do (cars, airplanes, household utilities, military weapons) , it would seem to me that OS security holes more and more fall into the category of life threatening.
An unidentified computer hacker has got hold of top secret U.S. computer system codes for guiding space ships, rockets and satellites, a lawyer in Sweden said Friday.
So they got the source code for guiding the systems. If the system is properly engineered, it shouldn't matter if you know how to guide it, you still need access to the system. If the system is poorly engineered, I'm going to buy some pillows like that TV guy in Willabong Australia or wherever.
At most universities, how could they not at least approach student affairs as if they were the local guardian. If they didn't, some freshmen that doesn't know one end of a beer bottle from another would get themselves killed, and then the parents would sue the university. Freedom comes with responsibility, but who's suppose to teach that responsibility? (My answer: the parents, well before the student reaches university.)
Of course, once you give a beauracratic institution a litte power, you've guaranteed yourself a fight to control it.
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It wasn't that long ago (less than 3 years?) that a Navy warship was dead in the water because of an NT bug. Considering the current level of technology in everything we do (cars, airplanes, household utilities, military weapons) , it would seem to me that OS security holes more and more fall into the category of life threatening.
So they got the source code for guiding the systems. If the system is properly engineered, it shouldn't matter if you know how to guide it, you still need access to the system. If the system is poorly engineered, I'm going to buy some pillows like that TV guy in Willabong Australia or wherever.
At most universities, how could they not at least approach student affairs as if they were the local guardian. If they didn't, some freshmen that doesn't know one end of a beer bottle from another would get themselves killed, and then the parents would sue the university. Freedom comes with responsibility, but who's suppose to teach that responsibility? (My answer: the parents, well before the student reaches university.) Of course, once you give a beauracratic institution a litte power, you've guaranteed yourself a fight to control it.