Bloomberg - Biden’s Cyber Plan to Hold Software Devs Responsible in Hackswww.bnnbloomberg.ca/biden-s-cyber-plan-would-hold-software-makers-responsible-in-hacks-1.1890234
65 sats \ 5 comments \ @nkmg1c_ventures 2 Mar 2023 bitcoin
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36 sats \ 3 replies \ @JohnBennson 2 Mar 2023
"software makers must be held liable when they fail to live up to the Duty of Care"
They are setting up to license Software Developers.
Devs will get all the liability for any "societal harm" they cause. Devs will NOT get the monopoly benefits of licensure that Doctors and Lawyers get, the ability to force people to use their services.
Did your software enable Money Laundering? Well, no license for you then, and you'll be prosecuted if you publish Unlicensed Software.
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214 sats \ 0 replies \ @031ef7d322 2 Mar 2023
you'll be prosecuted if you publish Unlicensed Software
No, that’s very clearly covered by the first amendment, this is FUD.
From the beginning of the article, quoting the document it’s about:
“Responsibility must be placed on the stakeholders most capable of taking action to prevent bad outcomes, not on the end-users that often bear the consequences of insecure software nor on the open-source developer of a component that is integrated into a commercial product”
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @scottathan 2 Mar 2023
Even more than that, government lisencing of practically any sort is immoral. Now they've just tresspassed from lisencing your labor to lisencing your speech. Honestly, I'm do done with FedGov
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @SovranSystems 2 Mar 2023
Correct! All governments are immoral because they are based in violence (we will steal from you, kidnap you, lock you up, etc. if you don't follow what we say - which puts the population UNDER DURESS) and on top of that the belief in authority is a religion because authority does not exist in nature.
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 2 Mar 2023
Uncle Bob warned us this was coming.
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