now a days, i am getting spammed left and right in my yahoo account. of all the things, it is about some updates from microsoft patches. looks authentic with all that microsoft logo, but comes from a microsoft.yahoo.com id ;-).
i think it is high time that software companies must be made liable for thier faults/bugs. there is absolutely no incentive for them to write safe code!!! they would rather invest on bells and whistles than safety!!. insurance would surely be one answer for the software cos, and insurance cos would obviously charge less for the companies with more safer code. So there is an economic bias/rationale towards this whole liability argument.
But who's listening?