On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:36:12 BST, n3td3v said: > Is what you're describing not against the law Valdis, it sure sounds > like it to me. Some kind of gross negligence... Note that it's "gross negligence" only if there is a *high* risk of *actual* damages that a reasonable person should have forseen. Also, in the vast majority of cases, the concept only applies to events you actually have control over - so in this instance, HD Moore could *conceivably* be negligent towards *his* company, but if *other* customers of ATT suffer because ATT doesn't fix their stuff, that's ATT's problem, not HD's. However much you may *want* it to be HD's fault for not contacting ATT and warning them, the law usually doesn't work that way - nor do you *want* it to. If HD was required to warn ATT, then the readers of FD would *also* be required to contact the police in your area and warn them that there was a clueless and mentally unstable person wandering around with significant chance of serious injury to themselves... For bonus points - identify the actual *LOSS* to HD Moore from the DNS getting hacked. Looks to *me* like he came out *ahead* - he got more headlines talking about it than you can ever hope to get. > I wonder if the the intelligence services thought like you before 9/11 > and 7/7 eh...I get the feeling they did. Yes, and since then, we've *failed* to do proper risk analysis. We've spent some five hundred billion dollars and gotten some 6,000 soldiers killed to prevent another attack that kills 3,000 and does 10 billion dollars in damage. So far, we're about 3,000 people and $490,000,000,000 in the hole. And here's news for you: Many government agencies *still* do calculations that way. They calculate a "value of a life", and use it to evaluate things like environmental and safety regulations: If a life is worth $5M, and the regulation is projected to save 500 lives (via lower risk of cancer, fewer car crashes, whatever), the regulation has to cost less than $2.5B to implement to be worth it. If it costs $2B, but only saves 50 lives, that's $40M per life and not worth it.
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