ibenez wrote:

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."

Uhm.... wtf. This might like..I dunno... get people to care a little more about writing quality code (for those few who don't)... but software is more or less the most complicated systems humans have ever built - I can't imagine writing code that is bug free - has anyone here written software that's entirely bug free - over time?

I think ppl are misreading this. I think he means responsible within an organization and not liable in a legal sense. I agree that developers should be responsible, but that responsibility can only come from managers who are themselves responsible.

ibenez wrote:

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."

Uhm.... wtf. This might like..I dunno... get people to care a little more about writing quality code (for those few who don't)... but software is more or less the most complicated systems humans have ever built - I can't imagine writing code that is bug free - has anyone here written software that's entirely bug free - over time?

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