I didn't necessarily mean legal liability, but more like:
User: MY GMAIL IS BROKEN!! WTF?! FIX IT!
Google: It's beta, leave us alone.. we don't have to support you.
Froogle still has BETA in the corner, does that mean its not open to the public too? GMail will probably always be in "beta" because that way they have no liability if it fucks up. As for it being open to the public, I'm guessing that it's slowly being offered to those random users until the point where they feel that they can handle everyone and their brother signing up for an account. Sure all of us who know about it and want an account have one already, but we're nerds.. you can't say that about the rest of the sheep.:)
Yeah... and once this happens, the new target of choice for the spyware/malware developers will be Linux and OS X. It has nothing to do with Windows being insecure, but with the amount of machines that they have available to target. The market share that Windows has over * makes Windows the obvious choice if you're developing stuff like this since you're most likely going to pick up more 'users' of your shady program.
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If there's money involved, there's a will.. and where there's a will, there's a way.
until the network administrators find a serious vulnerability and have to burn/press about 35602638023862 new cds to patch it.
I didn't necessarily mean legal liability, but more like: User: MY GMAIL IS BROKEN!! WTF?! FIX IT! Google: It's beta, leave us alone.. we don't have to support you.
Froogle still has BETA in the corner, does that mean its not open to the public too? GMail will probably always be in "beta" because that way they have no liability if it fucks up. As for it being open to the public, I'm guessing that it's slowly being offered to those random users until the point where they feel that they can handle everyone and their brother signing up for an account. Sure all of us who know about it and want an account have one already, but we're nerds.. you can't say that about the rest of the sheep. :)
Yeah... and once this happens, the new target of choice for the spyware/malware developers will be Linux and OS X. It has nothing to do with Windows being insecure, but with the amount of machines that they have available to target. The market share that Windows has over * makes Windows the obvious choice if you're developing stuff like this since you're most likely going to pick up more 'users' of your shady program.