[CNET] Microsoft faces class action over security

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

http://news.com.com/2100-1009-5085730.html

| Microsoft faces class action over security
| Last modified: October 2, 2003, 12:17 PM PDT
| By Reuters
| 
| Microsoft faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in California based on
| the claim that market dominance and vulnerability to viruses in its
| software could lead to "massive, cascading failures" in global
| computer networks.
|                 
| The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, also
| claims that Microsoft's security warnings are too complex to be
| understood by the general public and serve instead to tip off
| "fast-moving" hackers on how to exploit flaws in its operating
| system.
|
| [...]

Das koennte erhebliche Flurschaden anrichten. Microsoft gibt sich
mittlerweile am meisten Muehe mit den Advisories (und sie sind
inzwischen schon *beaengstigend* gut im Vergleich zur Konkurrenz).

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