Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe...
by jnwatson on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:53PM
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It took a concerted campaign by Ralph Nader to hold car companies liable.
It isn’t clear how that would work with software. Would FOSS authors be held liable? That would mean the end of open source.
There’s plenty of precedent
I think lack of safety features that meet our current common knowledge of the potential failure scenarios should be enough to shut down a company
We can refuse to enable commerce that jeopardizes or personal safety (literal or ephemeral data theft)
Capitalists are just humans. They can be culturally pressured and shunned. Such behavior has been a hallmark of human society since they began
Physics is a vacuum of such rules. Human society has always had them