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Re: Windows 2000 declared secure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Nov 3 18:25:41 2002

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org>
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>,
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com, e-lang@eros-os.org
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:20:29 -0500

In message <1036287365.30537.543.camel@deskjob.eros-os.org>, "Jonathan S. Shapi
ro" writes:

>I disagree. The problem is even more fundamental than that. The problem
>today is the absence of liability for the consequences of bad software.
>Once liability goes into place, CC becomes the industry-accepted
>standard of diligent practice. Until then it's just a way of killing
>trees.

Hmm -- let me point folks at http://law.shu.edu/ilstsymp/ilst_details.pdf
(registration at http://law.shu.edu/ilstsymp/index.htm)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)



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