>From http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39228663,00.htm
> Software developers should be held personally accountable for the
> security of the code they write, said Howard Schmidt, former White
> House cybersecurity advisor,
Uh huh ... right. Blame the programmer. Not the vendor that failed to
perform adequate QA on the software.
Program bugs are inevitable ... that's the nature of things. Those
bugs, however, should be caught before the code is released. That's
what QA is all about.
JMHO, of course.
david
(who's a developer)