Were people who made things from lead and asbestos decades earlier held liable for not knowing they would be found bad decades later?
No (or at least, not to my knowledge), instead people just had to buy new things. Standards change. New security vulnerabilities are discovered. Liability doesn't stand in these cases.
If you can't possibly find every security vulnerability in your product, you shouldn't be held liable for the inability to do so. You have to disclaim that, as I'm sure D-Link does.
> Were people who made things from lead and asbestos decades earlier held liable for not knowing they would be found bad decades later?
My knowledge of this is really fuzzy now (I had to learn about it for a college ethics course) but I believe that for asbestos manufacturers knew about the health hazards for years and covered it up.
Yep. In a lot of these cases, companies knew that X chemicals were really bad for people. But since they're not some academic arm, they most certainly aren't running studies that open them up to liability. It would be the understood 'we know this is deadly, who cares' kind of stuff coming from workers in the organizations.
No (or at least, not to my knowledge), instead people just had to buy new things. Standards change. New security vulnerabilities are discovered. Liability doesn't stand in these cases.
If you can't possibly find every security vulnerability in your product, you shouldn't be held liable for the inability to do so. You have to disclaim that, as I'm sure D-Link does.