use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1683 - 16 msgs

Keith Martin keith at vortex.co.uk
Wed Jul 30 07:20:00 EDT 2003


>>and then slowly destroying hypercard

>A stack that destroys a software program when it interprets an
>action as unsuitable? Now what the word for that...? Starts with
>a v I think.
>
>Destroying the stack (or a standalone version) seems defensible, but
>I'm not sure there is safe legal ground for destroying a program not
>provided by the vendor.

No safe ground at all. And actually, destroying the users data is a 
legal no-no too, whatever the reason for doing this. If the stack 
holds data the user entered, and the stack self-destructs on purpose, 
then the user *can* sue - and yes, there are related precedents. (And 
such events have sometimes made it into tech news stories, which is 
certainly not good publicity.)
So please, think very, very carefully before doing this sort of thing.

k



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