Re: Incomprehensible
IMO it's incomprehensible that Microsoft has zero accountability
Any liability is mediated by their ability to provide patches which, thus far, have been accepted as sufficient redess.
To be clear this covers all software where it is not possible to determine negligence. But, while it covers exploits due to sloppy programming, it also covers exploits of code that, at the time of writing was considered safe, with the exploits based on techniques that have been subsequently developed; cryptography being an obvious example.
I suspect that over time legal interpretation might change as software finds its way into more and more products and the difference hardware and software blurs, but at the moment that is the case.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
