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  • Well on one hand sure.

    On the other hand, detrimental reliance is a tort and if someone is relying on an app for a specific safety function, the app could be civilly liable if it fails it’s function in some way.

    Imagine if you had this attitude about an insulin use tracker/calculator, that sometimes gave wildly wrong insulin dose numbers.

    Maybe down the road, it’s decided that aiding and abetting ICE is a crime, and providing misinformation intentionally or unintentionally is a criminal act. App developer dude could be criminally liable if he knew or ought to have known he had vulnerabilities. You know, in your New Nuremberg trials that you are going to get sometime in the next decade or so.

    That’s not to say the researcher is in the clear, the timeline is too tight for his end of this to be a responsible disclosure.

    Without providing more details, I also discovered that his server is running outdated software with known vulnerabilities.

    I was intentionally vague because I knew that his server was vulnerable at the time of writing, and I didn’t want anyone to exploit one of these vulnerabilities before he had a chance to fix it.

    Also, this is not vague, profiling techniques exist, and it puts a clear target on the iceblock servers.







  • I never took a stance on it.

    Examples of federal Crown corporations include: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canada Post

    These are fine, fairly high quality in terms of service. And I guess in general these two having revenue streams and self funding mean that I don’t pay taxes to run a national broadcaster and our postal service.

    I would rather not have junk mail or advertisements in our public broadcasts. I would have to look at numbers to say whether the taxes are a worthwhile trade-off.

    I do not want news or mail to only have corporate owned options, because then capitalist interests would have a much heavier influence on communications is Canada. I wish we had a national crown ISP, for the same reason.

    In Canada, state-owned corporations are referred to as Crown corporations, indicating that an organization is established by law, owned by the sovereign (either in right of Canada or a province), and overseen by parliament and cabinet.