Today, software is not perfect, but “software got U.S. astronauts to the moon and back on computers less powerful than the smartphones we carry,” says Marcus Ranum, chief security officer at Tenable Network Security. What happened to good, reliable, and secure software?
Ranum conjectured that, without regulation, consumers have chosen cheap and bad software over expensive and good software. Regardless of the truth or falsity of that proposition, both Ranum and Bruce Schneier, chief technology security officer at BT, agreed that software manufacturers are writing and selling unreliable and insecure code in a debate at the RSA Conference USA 2012 on Feb. 29 on whether or not to fix the problem with “software liability,” i.e., create civil liability for software manufacturers whose code causes harm to consumers.
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