Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws

CowboyRobot writes with this piece at the ACM Queue, in which "Poul-Henning Kamp makes the argument for software liability laws. 'We have to do something that actually works, as opposed to accepting a security circus in the form of virus or malware scanners and other mathematically proven insufficient and inefficient efforts. We are approaching the point where people and organizations are falling back to pen and paper for keeping important secrets, because they no longer trust their computers to keep them safe.'"

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Re:Another law? No thanks.

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Funny, none of my firearms actually say don't point at face

It's usually engraved at the end of the barrel. Look closely.