Bush Advisor Makes Sense?

Get ready for the first ever Hades snowball fight. Apparently someone in the President’s cabinet has a clue! As I stated before, it’s assinine to arrest a hacker that tells you your software has a security hole. A researcher that HP is suing pointed out, “We are like the guys that found out that Firestone tires have issues on Ford Explorers. It’s not our fault your Explorer has crap tires. We just pointed it out. We should not get attacked for pointing out issues in someone’s product nor for proving it is possible.”

An article over at Nando Times states that a presidential advisor encouraged the nation’s top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers.

Richard Clarke, President Bush’s computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker. “Some of us, here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities,” Clarke said. Clarke said the hackers should be responsible about reporting the programming mistakes. A hacker should contact the software maker first, he said, then go to the government if the software maker doesn’t respond soon.

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