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The guy who owns this domain definitely didn't say he's going to be immediately selling it to North Korea if M$FT doesn't bite. You'd better tread lightly with
by huffmsa 7y ago
The guy who owns this domain definitely didn't say he's going to be immediately selling it to North Korea if M$FT doesn't bite.
You'd better tread lightly with the libelous claims here.
He's simply putting it up to auction. Which is legal for oil, as it is for a domain name.
- gpm 7y ago> O’Connor said he hopes Microsoft Corp. will buy it, but fears they won’t and instead it will get snatched up by someone working with organized cybercriminals or state-funded hacking groups bent on undermining the interests of Western corporations. I think I'm well covered... and no, it isn't, not if you know the person who is going to buy it is going to use it criminally.
- crooked-v 7y agoA person can be reasonably confident that their immediate sale of an item is going to go to someone who will use it responsibly... while still worrying about its disposition five or ten years down the line. (Microsoft has already let this problem sit for 26 years, after all.) That still doesn't mean the person has any particular legal or moral responsibility to monitor their original customer indefinitely just because there's a future risk.
- huffmsa 7y agoMicrosoft has been living rent free on this guy's good will.