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gregjor on July 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injec...

Are you aware of an actual case of an owner of a web site getting sued because their site was used to attack other sites, without their knowledge? This could (and has) happened with other tools besides PHP. Is Microsoft liable because Windows is used as a launchpad for attacks?

tannhaeuser on July 26, 2021 [–]

IANAL, much less a judge, but I think there's a plausible legal theory for suing isn't there?

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