Re: [SC-L] 2010 bug hits millions of Germans | World news | The Guardian

2010-01-08 Thread McCown, Christian M
Anybody heard of Von Neumann probes? Google it. Then imagine what might happen if we (humans) employ the same (p*ss) poor programming discipline we do today into something like that. Fun to ruminate on. Chris McCown * Intel Corp -Original Message- From:

[SC-L] Software Security Training for Developers

2007-08-16 Thread McCown, Christian M
What are folks' experiences with software security training for developers? By this, I'm referring to teaching developers how to write secure code. Ex. things like how to actually code input validation routines, what evil functions and libraries to avoid, how to handle exceptions without

Re: [SC-L] A banner year for software bugs | Tech News on ZDNet

2006-10-11 Thread McCown, Christian M
It's probably worth mentioning that the statistics are for OTS software. What keeps me awake at night (other than the usual trivialities) is the volume and severity of flaws/bugs in software that companies have developed or customized in-house/internally. It gets more complicated when these apps