Re: Charging customers on security
Steve Friedl <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:33:50 -0700
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 02:40:29PM -0800, wirepair wrote: > Charging for security of your own applications? That seems pretty backwards > to me. Why should the client who buys your software with the expectation that > it works and is secure have to pay for the fact that it isn't? So when my > seat belts are broken, and my tires randomly explode, I have to pay the car > manufacturer more money to get these features fixed? If you're paying an engineering firm to design some new seat belts, they may want to smash up a few cars with crash dummies to test them. You might or might not want to pay for that. Steve --- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | +1 714 544-6561 www.unixwiz.net | Tustin, Calif. USA | Microsoft MVP | [email protected]