Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > >From: Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Did a quick search and didn't see any talk of this on the list: > > > >http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ > > > >Should be required reading for anyone that wants to be a programmer, > >admin, or really work in any level of IT (especially management and > >execs should be forced to read it too). > > All in all it feels like a rant without any real ideas of how to improve > things.
I similarly dismissed it. Reading the last minor point cinched it: "We can't stop the occasional problem" - yes, you can. Would you travel on commercial airliners if you thought that the aviation industry took this approach with your life? I didn't think so. No. No you cannot stop the occasional problem. You cannot forsee the future. Occastional problems will occur. This is why you have contigency plans. Hopefully, they will work. This reminds me of what one guy was saying when I was going through Total Quality Leadership classes: How many of you, when driving home, arrived at the wrong house? Of course no one answered, so he used that to make the point that we can acheive 0% mistakes. My question would have been to the same group: How many of you got off at the wrong exit when driving home? How many of you past your turn, while driving home? How many of you passed your own house, while driving home? Mistakes were made, obviously, but they were all corrected. We simply cannot stop the occasional problem. We can fix them, though. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
