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White House CyberSecurity - Jobs, Research, and Rhetoric, but Few Results
Richard Forno, 2001-12-12

The commitment by the federal government to further computer security research may be laudable, but it fails to address the root cause of most security issues: bad software.

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White House CyberSecurity - Jobs, Research, and Rhetoric, but Few Results 2001-12-17
MartinK
Forno says the Government should ..."hold(ing) vendors accountable for failing to provide appropriate security and availability guidance in the infrastructure design process."

Vendors are going to get religion only when it costs them real money if they don't. Having to fix mistakes on their own dime will not be incentive enough for them to spend the time and money it is going to take to avoid those mistakes in the first place. Car makers didn't provide seat belts or smog equipment until they were forced to.

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