Actually, Brian Shea got the points for emailing me that he knew it was
the system error Access Denied.
An extra 10 points goes to Andrew van der Stock for his explaination
that:
apparently the term originates from radio, where 5x5 means good
reception and good signal strength (in that order).
On 7/21/06, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Brian A. Shea:
My slogan:
Unsecured Applications = Unsecured Business
Which is completely acceptable if you and your business partners are
aware of the risk level at which your are running your company.
Secure software costs more,
What is important is that some magic formal tool could say that some
code in language A, where bug of type k is possible, is not
equivalent to the version in language B, where type k bugs are
impossible, ergo you have found a type k bug (in the absence of any
other bug in that section of
On 7/21/06, Dana Epp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah.
but none of this changes the fact that it IS possible to write
completely secure code.
-- mic
And it IS possible that a man will walk on Mars someday. But its not
practical or realistic in the society we live in today. I'm sorry mic,
I've actually been using a secure software slogan for a few years, both in
teaching and in pitching business. It's taken from Howard and LeBlanc's
book Writing Secure Code:
- Security features are not secure features -
The statement mesmerizes people and aguably needs a necessarily to be
more
Greetings SC-L,
It's been a busy couple of days here on SC-L. The bumper sticker
thread, in particular, has obviously generated a *lot* of (useful and
interesting) discussion. While I'm reluctant to stop legitimate and
open debate of opinions, I think that it's fair to say that this
There's another point to consider, when talking about whether True Security
is Possible. And I have to say I've never been happy with the forms I've
found so far to express it...
Security, in many cases, decays. It's like what we used to call, in the Old
Days, bit rot. Software that has worked
