A router maker starts receiving complaints from customers — around the world — that the ports on a particular networking device are not working properly. IT professionals, scrambling to cope, attempt to close the faulty ports with technology equivalent to electrical tape. They are able to redirect the data flow to other parts of the device, but the damage has already been done, and there is a global network outage. Who is responsible for the resulting loss of business to companies worldwide that have been affected by the data blackout?
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Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski March 18, 2004 06:23 AMA router maker starts receiving complaints from customers — around the world — that the ports on a particular networking device are not working properly. IT professionals, scrambling to cope, attempt to close the faulty ports with technology equivalent to electrical tape. They are able to redirect the data flow to other parts of the device, but the damage has already been done, and there is a global network outage. Who is responsible for the resulting loss of business to companies worldwide that have been affected by the data blackout?