The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development 347
libertynews writes "Michael Bacarella has written an article on coding and security. He starts out by saying 'Increasingly incompetent developers are creeping their way into important projects. Considering that most good programmers are pretty bad at security, bad programmers with roles in important projects are guaranteed to doom the world to oblivion.' It is well worth the time to read it."
a good read (Score:5, Funny)
Call yourself a computer professional? Congratulations. You are responsible for the imminent collapse of civilization.
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The user is pure evil.
Very true and sometimes misunderstood bits of information.
Of course... (Score:3, Funny)
"What you need doing? Daboo!"
going back to minding my fortress now...
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Re:If something like Windows plays any part at all (Score:1, Funny)
Cast ye not rocks from a precipice of cracked glass. Unix security is just as crappy as Windows, and has been for a lot longer.
Peon?! (Score:5, Funny)
Peons, indeed
Re:So basically... (Score:4, Funny)
Also holds the world record for "Shortest Book".
Your wife's in-laws? (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't your wife's in-laws be your parents?
Sorry, couldn't resist... :-)
-B
Re:Engineers (again...sorry) (Score:2, Funny)
*In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire defined fighting words as words which are likely by their very utterance to inflict injury, or which tend to incite the average person to immediate violence. The high court said that fighting words receive no First Amendment protection.
Re:a good read (Score:5, Funny)
2) Civilization is made up of users.
3) Computer professionals are responsible for the collapse of civilization.
4) Computer professionals will therefore destroy all evil.
Re:We Need To Consider 1980s DOD Practices (Score:2, Funny)
We're talking important stuff here, like e-mail and P2P networks, not silly ICBM toys
Now getting into a more serious attitude, the DOD has always done things in a way which is completly different from Corporate America, and Consumer America, where 2.0 is much better than 1.5, because it has more features, nicer GFX, whatever. Ohh, and 8.0 is much better, even if there was never a version 7.0, or 6.0, or 5.0, etc.
Do you guys think that the Marketing people as Microsoft were thinking about security when they gave the 8.0 number to the new MSN?? Unfortunatly, this is a marketing world, and the best marketing almost always wins. And if the loose, the marketing people try to make it look like they won anyway !!
Re:Who the f*ck is this guy, anyway? (Score:1, Funny)
Surf to his web site [bacarella.com], and it's just the same old self-absorbed bullshit that so many other people put up.
Perhaps you shouldn't be talking-- http://www.finchhaven.com/pages/computers/webmaste r.html [finchhaven.com]!
Re:Who the f*ck is this guy, anyway? (Score:1, Funny)
And when are you going to update your Datacenter blog?
Heh I love these book titles.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Engineers (again...sorry) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:a good read (Score:3, Funny)
1) Users are pure evil. (Given.)
2) Civilization is made up of users and computer professionals. (Assumption)
3) Computer professionals are responsible for the collapse of civilization. (Given.)
4) Computer professionals will therefore destroy all evil and take themselves out in the process. (Conclusion.)
Jason.
Re:Of course... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Who the f*ck is this guy, anyway? (Score:2, Funny)
Parent of the parent: read own advice column. k thx d00d
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