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it isn't no, but ask yourself, "what more can I do?" fund academic research? fund industrial research? hire security consultants to do independent audits and as
by munin 15y ago
it isn't no, but ask yourself, "what more can I do?" fund academic research? fund industrial research? hire security consultants to do independent audits and assessments? develop a secure software development methodology? hire security professionals and have them interface with both my product developers and the security community? have professionals interface with the global security community and develop strong working relationships with "well known hackers", possibly even hiring some of them? invest in lots of applied research on making exploiting bugs in your software harder? invest in actually building the systems that the previously mentioned academic research theorized about to identify bugs in software that you write?
oh, you did all of that? and more? and there are still bugs in your code? somehow I think this says more about the craft of developing software than it does about your company and culture ...
- wwrap 15y agoIt's not a secret that Microsoft's hiring practices are somewhat subpar and their internal organization is a mess. Am I surprised that a product got rushed out with major issues? Of course not, they do it every day.
- josephcooney 15y agoWhere is the evidence that it was rushed out?