On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:55 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> > I would really like to kill the meme that quality can only be achieved
> > by making fewer code changes, and by making developers' lives
> > unreasonably difficult ;-)
>
> http://www.ellak.gr/pub/synedrio/2008/presentations/day1-main/1-venema-oss-security.pdf
>
> :-)
As in Strategy 1: "Eliminate Programmers": "Make programming a million
times harder" ;-)
Sounds like a great strategy ;-) Particularly since we're starting from
such an example of perfection in OpenOffice (security-wise) - even
changing a single line anywhere risks catastrophically injecting the
very first security hole ;-)
But then - is secure code an explicit goal of OpenOffice ? does it even
appear on the radar ? is it even the most useful metric of quality ?
"Remember, buggy software **works**, even when
it is riddled with security holes"
If only that was true ;-)
Regards,
Michael.
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