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Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
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cite="mid36bd6e0b0610261045h3d264140w91a7de1707d58dfd@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On a somewhat related note, if a site uses Passport for
their login
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system, and Microsoft's servers become compromised, who is liable?
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Most interesting question! My guess is, that in this case, this would
be Microsoft, which has an insurance for such cases (except cash by
their own), to cover any negligence from their side. Considering that
you took Microsoft as an example, than I suspect, that a license
agreement of the service moves everything to the user ;-). So courts
may have sometimes another opinion about this...but the most important
thing is in this specific example is perhaps, that there is liability
and it has to be covered in one way or the other. Understanding this,
is already a step forward...<br>
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