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Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?
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| Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its
| software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a new European
| Commission consumer protection proposal becomes law. Although that sounds an
| appealing prospect, one knock-on consequence could be that open source coders
| would also be liable for any damage that errors in their software caused.
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| Here's what the European Commission is proposing:
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| A priority area for possible EU action is "extending the principles of
| consumer protection rules to cover licensing agreements of products like
| software downloaded for virus protection, games or other licensed content",
| according to the commissioners' agenda. "Licensing should guarantee consumers
| the same basic rights as when they purchase a good: the right to get a
| product that works with fair commercial conditions."
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| EU consumer commissioner Kuneva said that more accountability for software
| makers, and for companies providing digital services, would lead to greater
| consumer choice.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/should-software-developers-be-liable-their-code
Hackers breach UC Berkeley computer database
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| University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers
| infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other
| personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090508/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_uc_data_theft
Related:
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Secure web browsing through Live Linux distros
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| Banking isn't the be-all and end-all: there's many other reasons you'd
| want a secure system, separate from what's on the hard disk, besides
| Internet banking. Traveller's can't necessarily trust the integrity of
| a computer in an Internet cafe.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13292/53/
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
New banking code cracks down on out-of-date software
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| The banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking
| customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or
| anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took
| effect on Monday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/banking_code_2008/
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