Re: [SC-L] bumper sticker slogan for secure software

2006-07-21 Thread Mark Graff
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

Re: [SC-L] SC-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 183

2006-11-05 Thread Mark Graff
Gary McGraw said: Ed Felten and I found out early on (back in 1996) that you can use the press as a lever to get companies to do the right thing. We learned this when releasing the very first Java Security hole. We found out that Sun paid much more attention once USA Today picked up the

[SC-L] Book project needs co-author(s)

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Graff
Hi SC-L folks, Ken van Wyk and I (we wrote “Secure Coding”, in 2003) are working on a new book. It’s about how software developers and enterprise security specialists can work together to help make a business safer. The project is not moving fast enough for us, so we’d like to take on one or