Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt to provide compensation for server hack?

["Bill" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Has anyone taken up
> >the issue of compensation for this [hacking] incident with Cobalt? Surely
they must be
> >liable as they failed to provide sufficient server protection.

Compensation?  Don't hold your breath.  My opinion is that I don't think
Cobalt should or will be held liable.  Other Linux servers are being hacked
everyday, not just the ones with the Sun-Cobalt name.  Sun-Cobalt provides a
pretty decent product at a decent price. If you want to spend the extra to
make your RaQ/Cubes more safe (and you should) then that is your right and
the right of every RaQ/Cube owner.

One of our RaQ4s was hacked a few days ago. The liability for this hack
falls in our lap for not being more attentive to dangers that are
ever-present.  And, I do, in fact, put 100% of the blame on the hacker(s).

Bill