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• When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
• Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
• Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that 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…
• Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it…
• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing…
• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is…
• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for…
• I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so…
• In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of…
• Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.
• I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they…

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