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by grkvlt 3052 days ago
there is the doctrine of an 'attractive nuisance' [0] though, which gives precedent for making owners liable for damages caused to third parties by some dangerous object they did not sufficiently prevent access to... that easily hackable by the user marketing checkbox, combined with a sharp and pointy heavy agricultural spinning tool of death might count?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine

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That seems to apply to children.... I mean you should add some safeguards, to prevent the code from being modified by children messing around, but I dont think this would apply to an adult farmer trying to modify his tractor.