"Coming back to the topic of computer security,……" — Wietse Venema
"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 were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
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25 Quotes by Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema has 25 quotes on this site.
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When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some…
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Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
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Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
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I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security.…
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This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested…
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software…
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At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per…
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I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of…
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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all…
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Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.
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I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what…
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As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
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