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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by nopcode on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:29PM (#14325390)
>Products liability law

Wouldn't that hold Microsoft liable then?

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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by UK-AL on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:51PM (#14325596)
Maybe, but a patch for this issue being exploited has been out for quite some time. What's happened is that unpatched versions are being exploited.
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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by blowski on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:41PM (#14325491)
Depends. And that's exactly why it's easy to say "we need product liability law", but very difficult to say how it would work in practice.
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