Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Debasing Security, and 12 Programming Mistakes

"There’s no purpose in security if it debases the very life it intends to protect..."
Great article.  Loved the point about zoos, casinos, etc.  Dead is dead, no matter the how; why do we invest so much to protect air travel, when the likelihood of getting struck by lightning is so much higher?  Why do we not conduct a war on bad piloting like we conduct this war on terror?  Let's take that $338 million and get portable lightning rods for everyone.

The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls - and how to avoid these all-too-common programming blunders
I thought for a second this might be a really good article, but it's a wishy-washy piece of garbage.  Mistake #2 counteracts Mistake #1, every even-numbered mistake is the opposite of the odd-numbered ones.  "#5 Trusting the client," "#6 - Not trusting the client enough."  WTF?  If #5 is a mistake, then isn't #6 the opposite?  Also, nowhere do I see any mentions of how to avoid these problems.

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