From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 15:37:29 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!feeder.via.net!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3CD06A79.328F20BD@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <82347202.0205010735.1d1a66c3@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 22:21:45 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23375 Date: 2002-05-01T22:21:45+00:00 List-Id: dmjones wrote: > > Jerrey Carter: I thought my name was Jeffrey, but maybe it changed recently and I didn't know about it. > > I recall seeing, but can't now find, an article that put the worldwide > > cost of crackers exploiting security flaws at $10G for a recent year. > > Unless the vendor of the software pays, these are not costs in > the sense being discussed here. The vendor of the software certainly should pay. Every company that loses money from these flaws should sue the vendors. Even if they won every case the cost of litigation would make it worth correcting the software -- Jeffrey Carter