FYI, there's a provocative article over on Dark Reading today.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=140184The article quotes David Rice, who has a book out called "Geekconomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software". In it, he tried to quantify how much insecure software costs the public and, more controversially, proposes a "vulnerability tax" on software developers. He believes such a tax would result in more secure software.
IMHO, if all developers paid the tax, then I can't see it resulting in anything other than more expensive software... Perhaps I'm just missing something, though.
Cheers, Ken ----- Kenneth R. van Wyk SC-L Moderator KRvW Associates, LLC http://www.KRvW.com
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