TY - JOUR
AU1 - Simons, Barbara
AU2 - Horning, Jim
AB -  Inside Risks Barbara Simons and Jim Horning Risks of Technology-Oblivious Policy M any readers of this column have tried to influence technology policy and had their advice ignored. Politics is frequently a factor, but another reason for our failure is that we don ™t do a good job of explaining the roots of computing-related security and usability issues to non-technical people. 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. They have a difficult time believing that it ™s possible to conceal malicious code in large programs or insert malware via a software patch. They don ™t see why it is so difficult even to detect malicious code in software, let alone locate it in a large body of code. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which became U.S. law in 1998, is illustrative. The most controversial portions of the DMCA, the anticircumvention and anti-dissemination provisions, did not come into effect until 2000. It was only by chance that we learned why the delay occurred. (Stop reading, and see if you can guess why.) The delay 
TI - Risks of technology-oblivious policy
JF - Communications of the ACM
DO - 10.1145/1081992.1082028
DA - 2005-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/risks-of-technology-oblivious-policy-aWDbHyZXSi
SP - 136
VL - 48
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -