OUTER HOUSE, COURT OF SESSION [2013] CSOH 28 P47/12 OPINION OF LORD DRUMMOND YOUNG in the Petition of Mr William MacReath Petitioner; for Judicial Review of a decision of the Law Society of Scotland Act: Ferguson QC, Watts; Simpson & Marwick, Alt: Lindsay QC; Anderson Strathern LLP (Law Society of Scotland) Alt: Miss C, personally (Interested Party)  20 February 2013 [1] The petitioner seeks judicial review of a decision of the Law Society of Scotland dated 10 January 2012. [read post]

Over the last month, on our New Republic: Security States newsfeed, we rolled out a series designed to explain why fairly allocating the costs of software deficiencies between software makers and users is so critical to addressing the growing problem of vulnerability-ridden code—and how such a regime will require questioning some of our deep-seated beliefs about the very nature of software security. [read post]