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Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices

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On 27/06/2015 10:08 AM, Mike Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:12:37 +1000, Sylvia Else wrote:
>
>> Unless the relevant consumer laws state otherwise, it would be against
>> Samsung, since the consumer has no contract with Swiftkey.
>
> Did you ever read (all the way to the end) the Samsung licence agrreement?
>
> I gave up and turned off auto-update of my phone when I got to the special
> section for Quebec. I am not a lawyer, but on the face of it it looks
> imperturbably unenforceable according to Quebec law.
>
> Quebec law clearly states that french documents where available take
> precedence over english translations under the civil code. But the Quebec
> addendum (in french) states that the english copy of the contract takes
> precedence over the french translation. So you end up with a circular
> reference in the legal precedence relationship of the two versions.
>

I suspect many software licence agreements are, at least in part, 
unenforceable, particularly where the software comes as a necessary 
adjunct to a physical object such as a phone.

In the present case, even if the licence agreement purported to limit 
Samsung's liability in respect of the software, that would fail to get 
past consumer protection laws in jurisdictions such as Australia, where 
the law expressly prevents a supplier from contracting out of its 
liabilities under the law.

Sylvia.

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SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-19 17:25 +1000
  Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices voyager529 <voyager529@live.com> - 2015-06-25 15:27 -0400
    Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-26 19:12 +1000
      Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Mike Duffy <see_website@signature.block> - 2015-06-26 20:08 -0400
        Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-27 08:12 +0300
          Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Mike Duffy <see_website@signature.block> - 2015-06-27 01:24 -0400
            Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-27 08:29 +0300
        Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-27 18:12 +1000
          Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2015-06-27 13:14 +0100

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