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Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software
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Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

by David Rice
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 46m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. Six Billion Crash Test Dummies: Irrational Innovation and Perverse Incentives

 

This [software vulnerability] list acutely scratches at the top of an enormous iceberg. The underlying reality is shameful: most system and web application software is written oblivious to security principles, software engineering, operational implications, and indeed common sense.

 
 --Dr. Peter G. Neumann Principal Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Lab

You are a crash test dummy for software manufacturers and are paying extravagantly for the privilege. In 1986, an Alabama driver lost his seven-year-old grandson due to defective software that failed to correctly control the flow of fuel to the vehicle’s engine. This failure caused the vehicle to ...

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