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A Need for Greater Cybersecurity

Posted by Hemos on from the crack-down-block-down dept.

otterit writes "A story in the Washington Post discusses how chief executives of U.S. corporations and their boards of directors should assume direct responsibility for securing their computer networks from worms, viruses and other attacks, an industry task force working with the federal government said."

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  1. /. Double-standard: Developers or Users by bruthasj · · Score: 2, Troll

    So, which is /.?

    Developers are responsible for secure code? Or, is it the Users?

    Remember legislation that might effect open source projects into being responsible for the security of their code? Remember the uproar that caused?

    Or is this another friendly gray-area-it-depends-if-it's-convenient-for-my-cur rent-political-agenda issue?

  2. Re:Bitch, Bitch, Bitch... by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    The term "Micro$oft" sucks.