Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri...
by waqf on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:59PM
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I don't think that's entirely true. If an acquaintance used your laptop in front of you to hack into a bank, you might be responsible.
But if Microsoft automatically downloaded BankHacker 3.11 to your machine and set it to pop up a dialogue box so that hacking into a bank was so simple your cat could do it — and if then your cat "used your laptop to hack into a bank", then common sense says that Microsoft would be responsible.
But if Microsoft automatically downloaded BankHacker 3.11 to your machine and set it to pop up a dialogue box so that hacking into a bank was so simple your cat could do it — and if then your cat "used your laptop to hack into a bank", then common sense says that Microsoft would be responsible.