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Holding Developers Liable For Bugs
sebFlyte writes "According to a ZDNet report, Howard Schmidt, ex-White House cybersecurity advisor, thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write. He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system. He was speaking in his capacity as CEO of a security consulting firm at Secure London 2005."
...and gun manufacturers should be responsible for murder.
funny thing is, Iraqis are dying faster now that we're there. Helping is great... if you do something that *helps*.
Like, say, not supporting someone like saddam in the first place, under any circumstances. Or, the Indonesian government (which we still are supporting).
Not just bush who should be held accountable.. but he's the one charge now who should be. How about his appointment of Mike Brown in the first place, a clearly unqualified head for FEMA?
Probably the biggest improvement I've had in browsing came after I starting using Firefox with the Adblock extension. With wildcards, it took only a couple minutes to setup some filters that stop around 99% of all ads.
damaged by dogma