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Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe)
From: "daN." <dan () evilhippo com>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 23:40:52 -0700
How about making it a felony to sell or otherwise provide software for commercial use that contains buffer overflows ? Or make it something you cannot "disclaim" - it should be part of the exercising of due diligence every software company has to get them out of software before releasing it. I'm actually half serious about this. It's time to start raising the bar.
I'm all for raising the bar for better software, but some times sh*t happens, most programers are people and they invariably make mistakes..we don't want to scare honest developers away from making software for fear of being sued.
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- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) Adam Shostack (Aug 11)
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- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) R. DuFresne (Aug 08)
- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) Darren Reed (Aug 10)
- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) David Wagner (Aug 08)
- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) Predrag Zivic (Aug 08)
- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) David Wagner (Aug 10)
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- Re: Re: Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings(Frank Knobbe) Jody C. Patilla (Aug 11)
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