Adam M

London, UK

Network Analyst

It's easy to laugh at the ridiculousness of the article, however these steps by Dell completely remove them from legal liability should it be found that a Dell device was assisting in development of WMD. In the land of spurious law suits I wouldn't be surprised if a law suit took place against Dell because one of their devices made it possible for example to detonate a bomb.

The same applies above to terrorists entering the US, if there was no "Are you a terrorist?" question, legal defence for any would be terrorists could claim the US didn't prevent terrorists from entering the country.

These issues are along the same lines as a hacker in the US recently that caused damage to company data, and the case against the hacker colapsed because the server he hacked into had a message "Welcome" on the shell window, instead of the typical Disclaimer and "Keep Out" message.