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Yes the government should prosecute people responsible for building insecure systems. Just like an electrician is liable if your house burns down and their wir
by Swizec 5y ago
Yes the government should prosecute people responsible for building insecure systems.
Just like an electrician is liable if your house burns down and their wiring wasn’t up to code [and caused the fire].
We need similar laws/codes for software. It’s time.
- dahfizz 5y agoThis is much more akin to a criminal breaking into your house, ripping into your walls, and shorting the wires to cause a fire.
- sergimansilla 5y agoI think the problem here is with the definition of “secure system”. What is “secure enough”? Considering we’re talking about groups that have resources to buy 0-day exploits, if they want to get in, they’ll eventually will. Sticking with your analogy, we could probably define a set of standards for baseline IT security for all IT systems…but it probably wouldn’t be very useful. Systems vary so wildly in complexity and scale that coming up with the equivalent of a “code” that fits most systems like we have with electrical installations is impossible.