These errors happen from time to time. But in the end you just get a formal apology and that's it.
Noone cares if someone lost money due to a mistake like this.
I wonder what Yahoo thinks about that.
This reminded me of a discussion I had with some of my fellow students a few months ago. We were discussing the posibilty of a market collapse due to a mistake in a NetFilter/Firewall/AntiVirus software (it was for a paper).
After running some numbers we got to a conclusion that companies who produce such software should pay some kind of an insurance (just like doctors pay malpractice insurance) so they could cover the expenses and losses such errors might cause.
But I guess we'll never see that happening.
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