Big Ethical Issue: are software manufacturers responsible for the security of their products? Certainly all GPL'd software includes a big announcement containing a big fat disclaimer that starts "THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH NO WARRANTY"


On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:40 PM, john fleming wrote:

T. Joseph Carter wrote:

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:18:17AM -0400, Linux Rocks! wrote:

True! They went down last year because of an internet worm that effected
their database(s). There is no doubt it will eventually happen again,
next time it could be worse too... The peope effected with that worm
were behind in thier updates... BofA could have avoided thier problem.



I am firmly of the
belief that someone should be held criminally responsible. The idiot who
decided that Windows was a good ATM operating system.


I not only agree with this point, the fact that it was a very poor security decision was known
by the people who are in charge of atm machine security. It was made at a corporate level (yet specific people voted or agreed to it).




There is as yet no legal framework for holding software engineers liable to the same degree that structural engineers are responsible for their works.

Why?

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