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Date: 2002-03-27T08:22:13-06:00

Hi,

>How about a contractual provision that if a backdoor is 
>ever discovered, the vendor pays some humongous penalty 
>to the purchaser?  :-)

I have thought for a while that if people stopped
trying to chase "script-kiddies" (with no possible
recovery of damage, and contrarily glorifies them) 
and sued the vendors of bad software for damage, the
movement towards secure software would accelerate
rapidly.

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