"Bumper sticker" definition of secure software

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On 7/17/06, Crispin Cowan <crispin at novell.com> wrote:
> >  Goertzel Karen wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've been struggling for a while to synthesise a definition of secure
> > software that is short and sweet, yet accurate and comprehensive.
>
> My favorite is by Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Software, coming out of a
> discussion between him and I on a mailing list about 5 years ago.
>
> Reliable software does what it is supposed to do. Secure software does what
> it is supposed to do, and nothing else.

and what if it's "supposed" to take unsanitzed input and send it into
a sql database using the administrators account?

is that secure?


>  Crispin

-- mic