Re:Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:06PM
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> In reality, consumers aren't (and can't) be educated enough to avoid products with these types of flaws. So, it's up to government to regulate
Why is the proposed answer to information problems always bans and fines? Is the government, or anyone else in the market, lacking in the capacity to instead provide people with better information?
If you want the government to do something, why not have them go out and evaluate the products that exist in the market? Then if they find vulnerabilities, they can report them to the manufacturers before they're discovered by attackers, and they can rate the vendors on their security practices and publish the information so that customers do have the information on which vendors make better products.
How is this not vastly superior to the thing where they destroy all small vendors with onerous regulations and then everything costs fifty times as much because the only vendors big enough to comply with the regulations are Oracle and IBM?
Why is the proposed answer to information problems always bans and fines? Is the government, or anyone else in the market, lacking in the capacity to instead provide people with better information?
If you want the government to do something, why not have them go out and evaluate the products that exist in the market? Then if they find vulnerabilities, they can report them to the manufacturers before they're discovered by attackers, and they can rate the vendors on their security practices and publish the information so that customers do have the information on which vendors make better products.
How is this not vastly superior to the thing where they destroy all small vendors with onerous regulations and then everything costs fifty times as much because the only vendors big enough to comply with the regulations are Oracle and IBM?