Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by tremon on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:29PM (#24756901)

I disagree that's a valid comparison. If the terrorists were able to remotely override Boeing's autopilot from the ground, and use that to steer the planes into the towers, Boeing would absolutely have been blamed, and rightly so.

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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by rhino369 on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:27PM (#24757705)

Nobody blamed Boeing for not putting locks on their cockpit doors.

The public actually doesn't generally place much blame on manufacturers of hardware for third party manipulation unless the point of the device is security. Nobody expects a car is invulnerable to sabotage.

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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by nonick on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:53PM (#24757243)

You could blame Boeing for not taking control of the planes from the ground and prevent the terrorists steering them into the towers.

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