Re:Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"
by coldtea on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:27AM
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>Since nobody knows how to reliably ship secure commercial software, liability will mostly have the effect of making it difficult to start new software businesses.
Doesn't sound so bad of a tradeoff, enforced for certain classes of software. Like one expects liability for medical, banking, flight control, etc. software, it could be extended to OSes, server programs, and anything handling user accounts...
Software with less impact if it's not secure, like e.g. a media player or a text editor, could continue to ship free from liability.
Doesn't sound so bad of a tradeoff, enforced for certain classes of software. Like one expects liability for medical, banking, flight control, etc. software, it could be extended to OSes, server programs, and anything handling user accounts...
Software with less impact if it's not secure, like e.g. a media player or a text editor, could continue to ship free from liability.