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Laws to Punish Insecure Software Vendors?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-the-land-of-the-free dept.

Gambit Thirty-Two writes "An influential body of researchers is calling on the US Government to draft laws that would punish software firms that do not do enough to make their products secure." Yeah that'll work.

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  1. Other Microsoft Failings... by Rothfuss · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Windows XP is not the only Microsoft product with security failings.

    For example Microsoft Bob.

    I've been waiting for a service pack for it for years. I'm just not as comfortable hooking Bob up to the internet as I once was. Bob has gotten more viral infections than an old French Whore in a port town.

    -Rothfuss