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Would just cause more companies to outsource anyway.


It might do the opposite. Imagine if the company was held responsible for the quality of the software regardless of how it was made. I suspect it would be much easier to meet any quality standards if software was written in-house.


It would get outsourced to the first provider who can indemnify the company against any failures in the software. Whether or not any provider would dare to provide such a service however...


However it happens, it still attaches a legal & financial cost to lazy security practices. And makes it actually in companies' best interest to do security auditing. I think that would be a net win for computer security - and consumers everywhere.




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