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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:20AM (#16696664)
Behold, The Great Worm of yore! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris#Criminal_...

(I thought of the first computer-aided fatality, but the sources don't seem to mention any prosecution w/r/t Therac-25)

Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by ajross on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:05AM (#16697032)
No, the Morris worm was criminal even if it didn't kill systems. The fact that it was accidentally killing systems surely changed the prosecutorial decisionmaking, but it wasn't relevant to the case itself. Morris was prosecuted for penetrating and abusing systems he didn't own, not for a bug in software that would have been non-criminal if it worked properly.