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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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