The biggest gripe I hear from security researchers is that if they send in details of a flaw they get a form email at best and then no further information.
In those kind of circumstances I'd say they should give the company in question three months - there can be few flaws that would take longer to fix if you're a large software house. At the end of that period send another email giving them a week to explain the situation and then publish.
I dread to think how many major software packages have flaws classes as low risk by the coders and ignored. There's a lot of people looking these days.
Bush senior promised this, then Bush junior and now DeLay. It's one of the best political promises to make - makes the politicians look good and then when the whole thing gets cancelled in a few years they don't care. Meanwhile space progress stalls and the planet gets poorer and poorer.
Any acid references are likely to be pulled as well. Moore is too twisted for Hollywood (and I mean that as a compliment), just look at the onscreen nightmare that was LOEG.
90 per cent of all software used in China is pirated (see today's IDC survey) and the Chinese government will enforce anti-piracy measures against its own population more efficently if local business is being hurt.
Sooner or later they'll have to open their markets and when they do you'll be going into a amrket used to paying for code.
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The biggest gripe I hear from security researchers is that if they send in details of a flaw they get a form email at best and then no further information. In those kind of circumstances I'd say they should give the company in question three months - there can be few flaws that would take longer to fix if you're a large software house. At the end of that period send another email giving them a week to explain the situation and then publish. I dread to think how many major software packages have flaws classes as low risk by the coders and ignored. There's a lot of people looking these days.
Bush senior promised this, then Bush junior and now DeLay. It's one of the best political promises to make - makes the politicians look good and then when the whole thing gets cancelled in a few years they don't care. Meanwhile space progress stalls and the planet gets poorer and poorer.
Any acid references are likely to be pulled as well. Moore is too twisted for Hollywood (and I mean that as a compliment), just look at the onscreen nightmare that was LOEG.
Exactly. It's also hardly a vindication of my country's armed services. Then again parts of the US Navy are still running NT4.
90 per cent of all software used in China is pirated (see today's IDC survey) and the Chinese government will enforce anti-piracy measures against its own population more efficently if local business is being hurt. Sooner or later they'll have to open their markets and when they do you'll be going into a amrket used to paying for code.