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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
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Subject: Re: Software vendor liability/culpability
Message-ID: <1991Jun05.183044.29147@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:30:44 GMT
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	Looks to me like the liability lies with the unscrupulous user.  It
was this user's choice to snoop the network and take the password and delete
the other person's files.  The company is guilty of irresponsible
programming, but unless the program itself found the pw, then the program
holds no liability.  (Just a VERY bad reputation.)  (And the sysadmin of the
site holds no liability either.)
-- 
The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM