2010/6/22 mark hellewell mark.hellew...@gmail.com:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti
on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490
Illegal to run without antivirus ... disconnection of vulnerable
computers. A much needed kick up the arse for software makers or
2010/6/22 mark hellewell mark.hellew...@gmail.com:
Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities
should be open to claims for compensation by consumers, apparently.
shrug/Doesn't seem like Apple cares.
Best
Martin
Nobody at OpenBSD would claim that they could guarantee
that there is no exploit waiting to be found in the OS.
They just make better efforts than anybody else to reduce
the chances.
The errata page shows that they are forever responding to
possible problems publically rather than
mark hellewell wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti
on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490
Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities
should be open to claims for compensation by consumers, apparently.
Illegal to run without
when ford sold the pinto with the 'exploding' gas tank, it just paid money
out to settle claims after many people were burned to death. although i
don't believe there is a precedent for it, possibly until now, many software
companies have been doing the same thing: selling crap products that
one way to look at the explosion of software development in the past
30-40 years is that it is an industry lacking sufficient regulation and
thus a very lucrative area to do business. because there is no
regulation you can get some random idiot in whatever country to write
your code
Adam M. Dutko wrote:
when ford sold the pinto with the 'exploding' gas tank, it just paid money
out to settle claims after many people were burned to death. although i
don't believe there is a precedent for it, possibly until now, many software
companies have been doing the same thing: selling
one way to look at the explosion of software development in the past
30-40 years is that it is an industry lacking sufficient regulation and
thus a very lucrative area to do business. because there is no
regulation you can get some random idiot in whatever country to write
your code
I disagree with this. How many times a year are motor vehicles recalled?
They don't replace the car, they fix it.
Why can't defective software get a recall or a hefty fine if they refuse to
fix it? This is a major reason I walked away from the paid software world,
impossible to pay for
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:44:45AM -0400, Adam M. Dutko wrote:
when ford sold the pinto with the 'exploding' gas tank, it just paid money
out to settle claims after many people were burned to death. although i
don't believe there is a precedent for it, possibly until now, many software
This is obviously not the intent. The intent is to have software that
is reasonably crafted by software engineers. Not some slapped together
turd with peanuts from different development teams.
I agree it shouldn't be slapped together but you strike upon an interesting
debate... Should
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti
on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490
Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities
should be open to claims for compensation by consumers, apparently.
Illegal to run without antivirus ...
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:23:14PM -0400, Adam M. Dutko wrote:
This is obviously not the intent. The intent is to have software that
is reasonably crafted by software engineers. Not some slapped together
turd with peanuts from different development teams.
I agree it shouldn't be
Marco Peereboom wrote:
Microsoft spends $10B on RD. That is nearly the ENTIRE budget of NASA.
They are the classic example of organizations that are completely out of
control and rely entirely on some process that is good enough. Anyone
who has written code that directly interacts with their
One hangover :)
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:24:43 -0500, Chris Bennett
ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote:
Marco Peereboom wrote:
Microsoft spends $10B on RD. That is nearly the ENTIRE budget of
NASA.
They are the classic example of organizations that are completely out
of
control and rely
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:55:10 -0500
Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote:
Getting a bunch of kids from college with some degree or another
or outsourcing code is a recipe for disaster. If the developers have no
vested interest in the success of the code a project will nearly always
fail.
How come the university acting as proxy, got so much of OpenBSDs DARPA
grant? What was the justification?
Graft, influence trading, and patronage are institutionalized in the
relationship between universities, research grants, and the government
in the US to roughly the same level as anywhere
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti
on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490
Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities
should be open to claims for compensation by consumers, apparently.
Illegal to run without antivirus ... disconnection of
Illegal to run without antivirus ... disconnection of vulnerable
computers. A much needed kick up the arse for software makers or just
bat-shit insane? Coming soon...
I tend to agree with your last comment.
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Idiotic politicians with no business setting arbitrary rules
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:52:30 +1000, mark hellewell wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti
on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490
Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities
should be open to claims for compensation by consumers,
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