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Re: Programmer Liability


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On 10/12/05, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
>

And not the vendor who failed to give the programmer enough
resources or time to do a good job. How often have we not as
programmers been asked how long a project will take and then
be told to do it in half the time...




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