Simon Moores

Kent

Columnist

It's an interesting suggestion: "I believe the only way we can ensure our security is to make the suppliers of internet services and software liable for security breaches which occur as a result of insecurities inherent in any products they supply. "

However, the security industry is worth around $20 billion and while agree, that the responsibility should lie away from the consumer and customer, I really can't see the powerful business IT lobby that dominates politics in the United States conceding that the remedy lies withthem.

Europe may be a different matter but that could take decades.

The truth is perhaps an unpleasant one. the IT Security industry and the online criminal fraternity are the major beneficiaries of fundamental weaknesses in the internet and PC software paradigm and if someone discovered a perfect solution to the problem, the anti-trist lawyers in the United States would never let it go to market; rather like the notion of turning water into cheap energy or the eternal light bulb!