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This is true, but one still wonders why government officials haven't pursued a criminal case.
by mfisher87 11y ago
This is true, but one still wonders why government officials haven't pursued a criminal case.
- roel_v 11y agoBecause it's such a minor issue.
- jellicle 11y agoHacking several million computers is minor? What qualifies as major, then? The Morris worm infected 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer computers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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- tragic 11y agoWell, there are surely more than three orders of magnitude more computers connected to the internet today than the 60,000 Paul Graham reports people guessing at in 1988. Put another way, as dreadful as it is, Superfish was never at risk of partitioning the internet. The harm is restricted to those luckless individuals who purchased a Lenovo laptop in the particular time frame at issue; quite possibly a crime, but not, playing devil's advocate for reluctant prosecutors, a 'something must be seen to be done or I'll be lynched' level crime.
- mfisher87 11y agoUh, why?
- seanp2k2 11y agoConsider what the outcome here would be if, instead of Lenovo expressly doing this, it was a single rogue employee who e.g. Modified the system image used by the factory with the exact same software in the exact same way and took the ad profits. Whatever would happen in that situation should happen here. I would guess prison time would be involved.
- task_queue 11y agoYou do not abuse the user's trust like that.
- rhino369 11y agoOne strategy the DOJ uses is to let a civil case go forward and then piggy back off it. Let the private attorneys do the heavy lifting and then swoop in for an easy victory. Also, the way the law is structured, it's typically easier to get information in a civil suit since defendants have fewer rights.