All Wietse Venema Quotes
- When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. Cause
- Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. Acceptance
- Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. Already Exists
- I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not… All
- Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems… Appeared
- This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works… Computer
- However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that… Adverse
- At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. Four
- I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with… Came
- In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in… All
- Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. Adding
- I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use… Anti
- As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included. Agent
- Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. All
- My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. Been
- One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. Bug
- Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service. Dies
- Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship… Box
- The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. Based
- The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. Any