"I don't expect an overnight change of all……" — Wietse Venema
"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 stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."
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25 Quotes by Wietse Venema
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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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Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I…
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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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