In the 1976 movie “Network,” a television anchorman famously implores his viewers to yell, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Yesterday, in more measured tones, a high-powered business lobby said just that about computer security on the network of all networks, the Internet. The Business Roundtable — which includes the chief executives of many of the nation’s largest “old economy” corporations — launched a public relations blitz that takes the software industry to task for developing products that are continuously vulnerable to hackers and virus writers. “Most of the significant cyber-incidents that have harmed American business and consumers over the past several years have had at their root cause defective and readily exploitable software code,” the group said in a written statement of principles on what should guide cyber-security policy. Full Story
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