Insecure software, security products we use to protect software from exploitation, hurt our economic progress. Bob Greene argues that software vulnerabilities are the broken windows of cyberspace. Greene: A broken window, if left unrepaired, sends a message of disorder into the community. Greene says software manufacturers have not been liable for broken windows (software defects) Greene: Software does not “break” in use, as do physical products; software is shipped by the manufacturer already broken. He says we are buying into disorder and thus creating more of it in software.”]

