From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 26 Oct 1999 - 14:18:12 IST
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:19:30PM +0100, Kathryn Cassidy mentioned:
> "Vendors must "provide products that will either be free
> from certain types of vulnerabilities or reliability
> problems or they will have financial liability," said
> Gilligan, speaking today at the U.S. Department of
> Commerce's National Information Systems Security
> Conference. "
>
> It'd be nice to see MS and the likes having to pay for
> insecurities in their code...
I'm be more interested in sueing Netscape for only shipping me 40bit
encryption, knowing it could be cracked, with effort. And then they would
pass on the cost of the suit to the dept. of commerce or whoever...
Kate
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