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Will Security Task Force Affect OSS Acceptance?

Posted by simoniker on from the your-name's-not-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting article published by SD Times: "Application Security Goes National" discusses some of the talking points generated by a federal task force that will make recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security. One of these talking points is to license software developers and make them accountable for security breaches. Licensed developers would get paid more as well. The article also mentions that "Executives" might not wish to work with smaller undiciplined partners and a little further down that "Hobbyists create Web services [and] professionals create them" and that "companies relying on critical infrastructure Web services need confidence". Would OSS have to be writen entirely by licensed developers to be considered secure? . Yahoo Finance has another article on the subject." The SD Times article is current, despite the incorrect date on it.

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  1. OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by RetroGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, they give this easy test for the license and every TD&H can drive. Of course we have had over 40,000 fatalities and 2 million crashes every year in the US for past 20 years.

    And then we get stupid laws like banning cell phones while driving.

    If you ban cell phones, then what about police officers, firemen, ambulance drivers, truckers (and other people with CB's) who use two-way radios.

    Using a microphone is more distracting than a cell phone, since you need to push a button to talk.

    Of course most of the a/n people have extra training and experience (and testing).

    BTW, what is a TD&H?

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    1. Re:OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by Kent+Recal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Erm, sorry to jump on your OT-article but what you say is bs. Banning cellphones from driving is one of the good laws that actually adds to safety. Anything that distracts your attention from the street (remember, you're moving) is to be avoided.

      And btw in police cars, firetrucks and ambulances there usually is a 2nd person and NOT the driver responsible for comm. And these vehicles are a whole different story anyways but I'll tell you 'bout that another time...

    2. Re:OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by boobsea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What about just banning unsafe driving?

      The cell-phone ban is just a "feel-good" law designed to make a people think that the government is doing something when all it is doing is just furthering its encroachments onto our own liberties.

      What about banning eating while driving? Putting on makeup? Talking to the person next to/behind you?

      You only think of the people who cannot drive responsibly with a cell phone but I've seen just as many if not more people who can use phones and drive properly.

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