Holding Developers Liable For Bugs 838
sebFlyte writes "According to a ZDNet report, Howard Schmidt, ex-White House cybersecurity advisor, thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write. He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system. He was speaking in his capacity as CEO of a security consulting firm at Secure London 2005."
Hey, God (Score:5, Funny)
Says it all (Score:3, Funny)
I didn't catch the ex- part the first look and thought "whaaaat?" as I know the current White House occupation force is very Microsoft Friendly and would never endorse such sentiments.
Education system? (Score:5, Funny)
He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system.
You know, I don't think it's entirely his fault that he's an idiot: I blame the education system.
No one is responsible (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Send jobs overseas, CMM (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right. (Score:1, Funny)
sounds good to me!
Re:Who is the bad guy? (Score:5, Funny)
That's crazy talk! What are you thinking, man? Next you'll suggest that when I walk down the street with my entire head completely exposed and vulnerable, that somehow the mugger than hits me over the head with a baseball bat may somehow be responsible for the outcome! See how crazy you are?
Or, when I lock my door and leave my house for the day, and a guy comes along with a sledgehammer and just breaks in anyway - I suppose you think that the person with the sledgehammer is somehow responsible for that? Totally twisted, man.
Re: Hold Government Leaders personally responsible (Score:3, Funny)
My solution is, at the end of a politician's term hold an election where the only two options are:
OTOH, shouldn't the voters who put a bad man in office go to prison for it?
Re:Right. (Score:3, Funny)
Lionel Hutz
"Can you imagine a world without lawyers? (Then he imagines everybody holding hands, dancing together, and shudders)"
Re:Right. (Score:3, Funny)
Better watch out, I have a patent pending on such a thing right now. Anybody with such a plan will have to license it from me!
I'm all for this... (Score:4, Funny)
So, heck yeah, cripple the IT economy, and make me stinking rich!
Re:Who is the bad guy? (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, that requires too much effort. It is much easier to find someone whos name is tied to the code.
That'll teach those coders to put their names at the top of files.
Code of Hammurabi (Score:5, Funny)
If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, than the contractor shall be put to death.
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.
This is of particular interest to me as I contribute code to software used to design steel buildings. I would not want to see this code reapplied today to dwellings or programming.
Re:Code of Hammurabi (Score:4, Funny)
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death."
If it causes the death of the owner's boss, then the contractor's boss shall be put to death.
Re:Code of Hammurabi (Score:4, Funny)
Re:CMMI (Score:3, Funny)
If only computer programmers were the ones that drafted laws..
Re:Iterative Development (Score:3, Funny)