Lawrence Phillips, senior IT law partner at solicitors Tarlo Lyons,advises companies on where they stand when a software contractor turnsblackmailer, and explains how software suppliers can avoid running intoliability problems
Q A contractor has threatened to trigger a logic bomb which he has planted, without our knowledge, into software he wrote for us. The software has now been rolled out to a number of clients. Can he...
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