It recommends that policymakers consider "steps that would increase the exposure of software and system vendors and system operators to liability for system breaches" as an incentive to face up to security issues instead of ducking their costs.
This is just what happened to Robin Cook in 1998, when marital problems, plus a couple of mishandled foreign trips, plus Britain's bungled intervention in Sierra Leone, conspired to make one of Labour's smoothest operators look like a liability.