[fpc-pascal] Need three things

James Smith jksmith at mail.grid-sky.com
Mon Aug 13 16:58:13 CEST 2007


Real world need for DbC, or some way to show due diligence:

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/08/10/house-of-lords-inquiry-personal-internet-security/

Quote:

"The third area, and this is where the committee has been most far-sighted, and therefore in the short term this may well be their most controversial recommendation, is that they wish to see a software liability regime, viz: that software companies should become responsible for their security failures.....

"and in practice it may be a decade or two before there’s sufficient case law for vendors to know quite where they stand if they ship a product with a buffer overflow, or a race condition, or just a default password...."

Competitive advantage to be exploited here.

James




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