[SC-L] Survey: source code review tools and programing languages

2011-07-05 Thread AF
List, I'm conducting a small study on static and dynamic code analyzers, which aims at evaluating how prevalent code review products are being used in diversely sized organizations, and on which programing language they are being used. What I can offer: - Anonymous processing -- email authors

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread ljknews
At 7:21 PM -0400 8/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The publisher of the web page is not in the security business, they are in the publishing business. But how can I respect their publishing expertise if they fail a simple automatic test. Well, I guess that most of web developers are not

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread Romain Gaucher
ljknews wrote: My experience is that browsers succeed on standards-compliant pages. Standard compliance should be the first test. If it subsequently fails on a particular browser, it is a browser defect which may or may not be of interest to the publisher. Agreed that, talking only about

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Manico
How does xHTML help stop access control vulnerabilities? Authorization issues? CSRF problems? And who is to say that an attacker cannot still do server side injection (sql injection, ldap injection) or timing attacks? I'm just getting started. xHTML is only one tiny piece of the outbound

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread ljknews
At 9:12 AM -1000 8/26/08, Jim Manico wrote: How does xHTML help stop access control vulnerabilities? Authorization issues? CSRF problems? It is indicative of the caliber of the people who built the site. My immediate interest is that validation combats browser crashes. I am not interested

[SC-L] Survey thread killer

2008-08-26 Thread Kenneth Van Wyk
Hi SC-Lers, With these last 2 messages, let's kill off the survey thread, please. I allowed it to continue on--probably longer than I should have-- because there seemed to be valid and interesting points being made on both sides of the debate. But that seems to have run its course, so

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread Paco Hope
On 8/26/08 3:03 PM, ljknews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not interested in dealing with people who cannot get the simple things right. Right. Because we all know that the HTML, xHTML, DHTML, CSS, and the related standards are really simple. Nothing to it. Writing valid HTML in our

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Manico
Making a very complex Ajax rich-client web applications perfectly xHTML valid is not easy. Most of the enterprise world goes way beyond simple flat file xHTML. Add in (the real reality of) highly database-drive dynamically generated javascript/ajax heavy pages, and I continue to conjecture that

Re: [SC-L] Survey

2008-08-24 Thread Paco Hope
Clearly the survey's content is only of interest if the HTML validates. On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:47 AM, ljknews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:43 PM -0400 8/22/08, Gary McGraw wrote: BankInfoSecurity is running a survey on software security that some of you may be interested in participating in.

[SC-L] Survey

2008-08-23 Thread Gary McGraw
hi sc-l, BankInfoSecurity is running a survey on software security that some of you may be interested in participating in. Try it yourself here: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/surveys.php?surveyID=1 I just ran through the survey. All told it only takes a couple of minutes. I found the