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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by thesuitonym on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:24AM (#45668782)
The difference between a law an a program is that the computer isn't a malicious actor trying to do everything in it's power to subvert the law. A law is nothing like a program, because a computer will do nothing without a program, but societies do all sorts of things regardless of laws.
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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by narag on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:09PM (#45672956)
The world a program works in and the computer it runs on are often very malicious, or they sure act like they are. Not to talk about users, some are pure evil :-)

We put a lot of safeguards, exception handling and all kind of measures to control errors.

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