CK - Washington. An American software product that forms a valuable line of defense against hackers is the reported cause of an unintended
Similar incidents, also some involving German software used in the United States, caused distress among network administrators when software buggily pinged servers at high rates or its designers failed to realize that users might modify the software so that it could accidentally or maliciously ping certain targets in a harmful manner. In some cases, demands from were made on the software makers for vast amounts of damages.
Perhaps there is a need to absolve protective software from product liability claims in the same manner that government procurement rules exempt government-specified products from such claims or Homeland Security exemptions cover goods for the defense against terrorism.
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