[ossig] A Tax On Buggy Software - Forbes.com

[NP Lee]

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/26/rice-cyber-security-tech-security-cx_ag_0626rice.html

Rice's book, /Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software,/ is a 
kind of hacker's take on /Unsafe at Any Speed, /a manifesto that calls 
the software industry to account for its careless attitude toward 
security, just as Nader took the auto industry 
<http://www.forbesautos.com/reviews/2005/jaguar/xk8/comparison.html> to 
task for its abysmal safety standards in 1965.

Rice blames the software industry for a litany of hidden costs, ranging 
from the infrastructure needed to fix hackable bugs in software to 
recent data breaches at the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon--even 
a Boeing 747 crash in 2005 that resulted from software glitches. All 
told, he places the total economic cost of security flaws in software at 
around $180 billion a year.


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