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The way this gets solved in the real world is through contracts - they have a certain contract with you, and if they break it, they can get sued and lose a lot
by edanm 9y ago
The way this gets solved in the real world is through contracts - they have a certain contract with you, and if they break it, they can get sued and lose a lot of money.
This is one of the goals of the legal system - make it so we usually trust each other. There are no real long-term technical solutions to this problem.
So if you want to make sure you're safe, read their EULA or equivalent.
- cyphar 9y agoOr you can design a system (like any number of crypto systems) that aren't vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. A compromised CDN could cause this problem, which now means that Mozilla would be liable for things that they don't administer. And resolving technical problems through the legal system never works well. If you can design something so users don't have to constantly trust you, then that's a much better solution. Not to mention that Send likely doesn't have a warranty (like most software under a free software license).