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>A better analogy would be, if you were a company selling doors - after a string of break-ins involving some group casually walking through your products like they weren't there, somebody would eventually start asking about your responsibility.

Actually most locks are susceptible to being picked (ie. a known exploit), so what you're describing is already the case, minus the lawsuits.

Locks being susceptible to lock picking actually turns into a feature when, for example, you're locked out or lose your keys: you just call a locksmith and they pick it for you.

There's no perfect security in the real world.

Windows instead of doors would have worked just as well.

Cyber Insurance is a huge growing sector in Toronto at least, and I worked on strategy for a "startup" in the space last summer.

You can't sell doors unless there's clear low enforcement that prohibited criminal activities. You need an environment to operate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portcullis

> Portcullises fortified the entrances to many medieval castles, securely closing off the castle during time of attack or siege.

Is the US in a state of war with China? Do we need medieval tactics to deal with cyber security? Why insisting on blaming the victim.