>>Anyone have any comments on this?
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>>http://uk.builder.com/0,39026540,39275698,00.htm
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>Honestly assuring that "my code is secure" is simply impossible.
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>Imagine a World where almost no computer programmer dares to write a line of code, because they are afraid of the liabilities if they (falsely) declare that their code is absolute secure - assuming there is a law that requires this. Does this mean we will no longer be able to use computers?

I agree. I don't see how one can expect the developers to be held PERSONALLY responsible for the security of the code they write. Obviously the developer needs to do the best he/she can - but this "lets stick it to the developers" attitue is ridicilous. One thing I did when I started consulting was to get a Sub S corp so that if anyone ever tried to sue me, they couldnt attack me personally, only my corp. ...so I'm not quite sure what this guy is suggesting here - but I don't see it every happening. If I thought that Time Warner could sue me peronally because of some security flaw in my application that was exposed a year down the line by some inventive hacker - I never would of written a single byte of code.
And what about all the outsourcing biz? They gonna try to sue someone over in India or what?