These are different issues!
Changing my router firmware is unlikely to kill anyone.
Changing my 40-ton truck software could well do.
How about:
'Sorry, I was busy optimizing my fuel economy, and I missed the user input to apply the brakes' ?
Posts by Bruce Hatton
5 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2007
Meet the Internet of big, lethal Things
Judge grants Viacom 12TB of YouTube user records
Sunday 6th July 2008 00:57 GMT
Madness!
Let's think about this.
Is there any legal requirement to keep such records in the first place?
If not, then Google can surely say 'Sorry, we don't have that information'.
It also raises a huge number of issues about about a USA company releasing information about consumers in other regions where such a request would be illegal, though I am sure that, with the current US paranoia, they are entitled to request anything held on a US server.
Google, just move your front-line servers to China!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
