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> The one thing I never understood about these warnings is how they don't run afoul of libel laws. I’m not a lawyer, but this hasn’t ever been taken to court,

• altairprime 11mo ago
  I know of no such cases, and would love to know if someone finds one.
  • trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
    I worked for a company who had this happen to an internal development domain, not exposed to the public internet. (We were doing security research on our own software, so we had a pentest payload hosted on one of those domains as part of a reproduction case for a vulnerability we were developing a fix for.) Our lawyers spoke to Google's lawyers privately, and our domains got added to a whitelist at Google.
• modzu 11mo ago
  you only sue somebody poorer than you
  • tgsovlerkhgsel 11mo ago
    It depends, if it's a clear-cut case, then in jurisdictions with a functioning legal system it can be feasible to sue. Likewise, if it's a fuckup that just needs to be put in front of someone who cares, a lawsuit is actually a surprisingly effective way of doing that. This moves your problem from "annoying customer support interaction that's best dealt with by stonewalling" into "legal says we HAVE to fix this".