Re: standards status in the industry - opinion?

[Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 22:20 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> The first is just user idiocy, and CM Kornbluth told us what the chances of
> fixing *that* problem are.
>
> But what retro-monkey programmer on the cutting edge of the Kornbluth Kurve
> thought that the API to permit the second was in any possible way a Good
> Idea???

When security mechanisms add what feels like too much complexity to a
task the user (and the programmer) will actively circumvent them.

As far as most developers of Windows based applications are concerned,
security became something a developer was responsible for and should
worry about when the book "Writing Secure Code" was published, which was
in 2002.

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With Regards..
Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue

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