Directory: ProductLiability 01-03-00-CACM-FutureComputerSoftwareWillBeConstrainedByInsuranceConsiderations.txt 04-03-00-CACM-WhoIsLiableForBugsAndSecurityFlawsInSoftware.txt 04-04-13-TechNewsWorld-UnreliableSoftwareCanKillYou.txt 05-02-25-WSJ-GrowingDemandForSoftwareMakersLiability.txt 05-03-07-CompWorld-ITTheats-SecurityAndProductQuality.txt 05-03-14-Forbes-ComputersCreateManyProblems.txt 06-02-08-StanfordCIS-EarthlinkArbitrationClauseRuledUnreasonable.txt 06-12-00-CACM-LiabilityRisksInReusingThirdPartySoftware.txt 07-01-18-AP-FamilesSueAfterChildrenAbusedByMySpaceUsers.txt 07-01-19-ZDNetUK-LinuxDeveloperArguesAgainstSecurityLiability.txt ==========> 01-03-00-CACM-FutureComputerSoftwareWillBeConstrainedByInsuranceConsiderations.txt========== Insurance and the computer industry Bruce Schneier March 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 3 In the future, the computer security industry will be run by the insurance industry. I don't mean insurance companies will start selling firewalls, but rather the kind of firewall you use—along with the kind of authentication scheme you use, the kind of operating system you use, and the kind of network monitoring scheme you use—will be strongly influenced by the constraints of ==========> 04-03-00-CACM-WhoIsLiableForBugsAndSecurityFlawsInSoftware.txt========== Technology strategy and management: Who is liable for bugs and security flaws in software? Michael A. Cusumano March 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 3 Attempting to determine fault and responsibility based on available evidence. Last October, the New York Times published a story on a lawsuit in California being launched against Microsoft in the State Superior Court [3]. The suit, ==========> 04-04-13-TechNewsWorld-UnreliableSoftwareCanKillYou.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33398.html Can Software Kill You? By Jack M. Germain TechNewsWorld 04/13/04 6:00 AM PT Many of the studies on software quality show there is little concern for quality assurance over profit. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, developers spend about zero percent of their development costs ==========> 05-02-25-WSJ-GrowingDemandForSoftwareMakersLiability.txt========== http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/10989133.htm?1c Posted on Fri, Feb. 25, 2005 Software makers may be held liable for flaws By David Bank WALL STREET JOURNAL Major technology customers, fed up with spending millions of dollars to fix problems caused by software flaws, are starting to press software makers to assume responsibility for the faults and pick up some of the costs. ==========> 05-03-07-CompWorld-ITTheats-SecurityAndProductQuality.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,100176,00 .html The Dark Side — Looming Threats for the Future of IT The future may hold bad software, ever-more-dangerous security threats and a host of other causes for concern, say our panelists. News Story by Gary H. Anthes MARCH 07, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Our panel finds plenty to worry about, from the sometimes deplorable quality of commercial software to cybercrimes and an ==========> 05-03-14-Forbes-ComputersCreateManyProblems.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/business/global/2005/0314/042.html Our Frankenputer Forbes Philip E. Ross, 03.14.05 Hostile programs bend our computers to their own purposes because we designed them that way. Time for some new ideas. You know it's bad when a virus starts talking to you with a Turkish accent. ==========> 06-02-08-StanfordCIS-EarthlinkArbitrationClauseRuledUnreasonable.txt========== http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_5/003768.shtml Internet service provider’s forum selection clause that requires California residents to travel to Georgia to recover small sums is unreasonable Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS) Feb. 9, 2006 The California Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District found that the forum selection clause in defendant EarthLink, Inc.’s (“EarthLink”) membership contract, which would have required consumers (in this case, ==========> 06-12-00-CACM-LiabilityRisksInReusingThirdPartySoftware.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 12 (2006), Page 144 Inside risks: Liability risks in reusing third-party software Wilhelm Hasselbring, Matthias Rohr, Jurgen Taeger, Daniel Winteler Reuse of well-tried components promises cost-effective construction of high-quality software systems. With this approach, third-party software components are usually integrated into complex software systems. The risks of using such components of different suppliers are both technical and judicial. Some technical problems were discussed by Peter G. Neumann in the July 2006 ==========> 07-01-18-AP-FamilesSueAfterChildrenAbusedByMySpaceUsers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16490534.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 18, 2007 Families sue News Corp., MySpace after children abused by adult MySpace users NEW YORK (AP) - Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday. The law firms, Barry & Loewy LLP of Austin, Texas, and Arnold & Itkin LLP of ==========> 07-01-19-ZDNetUK-LinuxDeveloperArguesAgainstSecurityLiability.txt========== http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux_guru_argues_against_security_lia bility/0,130061733,339273139,00.htm?ref=search Linux guru argues against security liability By Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK, 19 January 2007 08:16 AM Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.