<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">> I'm fairly certain that </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hard-coding a drop-dead date into your</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">> devices would be frowned upon by the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">courts.</span></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Well, the obvious previous drop-dead date was Y2K. Anyone know of any existing case law pertaininng</div><div>to the millennium bug?</div><div><br></div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>
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<br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, 28 March 2014, 7:44, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:57:40PM +0100, Tom Storey wrote:<br clear="none">> Perusing the j-nsp list I came across this thread:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/juniper/50450" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/juniper/50450</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> If youre running any older J series (i.e. x300), or were thinking of<br clear="none">> digging them
out to use for some purpose, you might be in for a<br clear="none">> slightly rude shock.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Otherwise its a "sad" thing to see. I have a J2300 in my lab at home<br clear="none">> which works great in such a role, it would be a shame to have to ditch<br clear="none">> it due to an expired certificate.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I really hope someone with a bit of money and an evil gleam in their eye<br clear="none">decides to take Juniper to task for this. I'm fairly certain that<br clear="none">hard-coding a drop-dead date into your devices would be frowned upon by the<br clear="none">courts.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Matt<div class="yqt8699798426" id="yqtfd60328"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">AusNOG mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net"
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