> It's a really hard problem.
Classify them as weapons of mass destruction. That's what they are. That's how they should be managed in a legal framework and how you completely remove any incentives around their sale and use.
Classify them as weapons of mass destruction. That's what they are. That's how they should be managed in a legal framework and how you completely remove any incentives around their sale and use.
Otherwise corporations will be incentivized (even more than they are now) to pay minimal lip service to security - why bother investing beyond a token amount, enough to make PR claims when security inevitably fails - if there is effectively no penalty and secure programming eats into profits? Just shove all risk onto the legal system and government for investigation and clean up.
Seriously HN? Your Netflix password being compromised is equivalent to thermonuclear war?
By this definition trucks are WMDs because they, too, can blow up a dam.
Hyperbolic comparisons undermine the speaker’s authority. Zero Days aren’t WMDs.