[146396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Nov 10 13:20:58 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:19:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111110181219.GA26841@gsp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Kulawiec" <rsk@gsp.org>
> Right. I know you can't and won't. I can't either. So we can
> summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they
> have no relationship to reality. You will not be suing BigFirewallCo,
> no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is,
> no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable
> we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep
> as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years
> and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys. (s/you/I/ and
> everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and
> probably not even then.)
Yeah, Rich, but come on: you and I -- and even his managers -- know that while
that is true (that no one's actually going to sue anyone, and likely legally
cannot anyway), that *still* won't keep Pointy Haired Bosses from making that
*capability* a firm requirement.
That's why their hair is pointy.
Cheers,
-- jra
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