Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

Re:Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" by tshaddox on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:50PM (#26269888)

> The situation you are describing is that automobile safety is implemented primarily by establishing standards and only secondarily by the existence of liability (though it's important).

Indeed, regulatory standards is what I was hinting at, not just civil liability (although I believe both exist for car manufacturers, and should probably exist for software vendors).

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Re:Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" by joe_the_user on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:30PM (#26270188)

Yes, we desperately need broad but appropriate regulatory standards. Especially, security standards and research should focus on securing infrastructure and infrastructure type resources. The hacked water supply article from just a few days ago was shocking even to cynical me.

Things like institutes that study this situation outside the government itself may be necessary to establish trust at this point.

And you can't make the standards primarily about software vendors.

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