Insecure Software Costs US $180B per Year - Application and Perimeter Security News Analysis - Dark Reading

[andre at operations.net (Andre Gironda)]

On Nov 29, 2007 5:13 PM, Andy Steingruebl <steingra at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like contractual approaches to this problem myself.  People buying
> large quantities of software (large enterprises, governments) should
> get contracts with vendors that specify money-back for each patch they
> have to apply where the root cause is of a given type.  For example, I
> get money back every time the vendor has a vulnerability and patch
> related to a buffer overflow.
>
> I wrote a small piece about this:
> http://securityretentive.blogspot.com/2007/09/buffer-overflows-are-like-hospital.html

If you read Geekonomics, you'll find out why this may never happen.
Because of existing software contracts, this is impossible today.
David Rice dedicates chapter five to a discussion on this, but it also
sprinkled throughout the book.

Cheers,
Andre