Mintjulep,
No it wouldn't be ok but a group being outside of jurisdiction means that they don't have to care one bit about local law and regulations. It likely would be a waste of their time to even try to be compliant. They just keep fishing offering cheap work until someone bites .
Mintjulep,
The location is important because it creates too many hurdles for any criminal prosecution or litigation. There is no reason for a foreign unlicensed firm to give two flips about any of the work they do in the same manner as someone living on U.S. soil. You pull similar stunts in...
phamEng,
He might be licensed in one of the other 49 states for all I know but no where does it say which state he is licensed in on his website or profile. During the phone call, I asked him why he just doesn't get reciprocity and stamp things himself and he just said that was something he was...
Well, folks. I think it is more than what I said. The guy that runs the place, as far as I can tell, is unlicensed and his company is an unlicensed firm.
I have someone that is want to offer me work to review someone else's design or use it as a basis for mine. I suspect the work is being done outside of the U.S. and a PE is needed to approve the design. When is it rubber stamping and when is it taking a company's design and running through it...
Geotechguy1,
I just find the whole thing a little wonky because 500 MW is no longer a few panel on someone's roof and can affect the bulk electric system.
This is something that is bothering me some and I don't know what to really say about it. I am running into small time companies that are doing MW battery, generator, and solar installations and they have no PE on staff or are registered engineering firms. It seem like some of these are...
Steve,
It is nothing like that because it never went out into the wild. If the Linux team was confident that they would catch all security problems, they should have had a third party do exactly what the people at U of MN did to validate their processes and run mock drills. I have worked in...
MacGyver,
I think the fundamental problem with software development is that it isn't disciplined and codefided. Without mandated practices for software development, it will be impossible to get people to write or even be aware of what is secure code and to get customers to pay for more secure...
Drawoh,
I don't think monitoring the bug reports is enough. My general point is that it is nearly impossible to have the resources to be fully secure. Honestly, the security of an operating system should be a multi-national effort with billions of dollars spent on annually on validation and...
Drawoh,
There isn't enough eyeballs for the amount of code. It would be impossible to do any real audit of the operating system. Having many eyeballs from several different groups is good but I don't think people understand the undertaking it would be to validate the security of millions of...
I am not sure you can even have secure code without restricting additions heavily, being very opaque and esoteric, and essentially crippling almost all development.
I think the people who did what they did are being criticized because they put egg on some people's faces who over overplayed...