Risks of Technology-Oblivious Policy.
The article focuses on the risks of technology-oblivious policy. People who have never written code do not understand how difficult it is to avoid and/or find bugs in software. Therefore, they don't understand why software patches are so dangerous. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 9; pp. 136 - 137 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2005
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