Choice Quotes From Writing Secure Code 2
So I’ve made a bit of a change up to my normal routine recently. Instead of sitting on the trains and playing video games, I’ve decided to get my read on, instead. At the moment, all of the reading is focussed on work and continueing my education since I haven’t had any training since I came to Groove. That being said, I’ve decided to start with Michael Howard and David LeBlanc’s Writing Secure Code 2nd Edition. I took their four hour training seminar while I was in Redmond, and, try as I might, I could only take so much of Sedgewick’s Algorithms in C++. But it’s a good book, and it has some really great quotes. I know that ‘Tos will get a kick out of these at the least.
A handful of knowledgeable people is more effective than an army of fools
Software never dies; it just becomes insecure.
My favorite of the bunch:
Security flaws are like cockroaches: you see one in the kitchen, so you et rid of it. The problem is that the creature has many brothers, sisters, grandkids, cousins, nieces, nephews, and so on.
Yeah, it’s a pretty good book. I’m enjoying it so far, and it’s a pretty quick read (at least the first part). Anyway, sorry to geek out like that, but I wanted to get some of these quotes recorded.
Sedgewick was a tool. And agreed, nice quotes. Though, I do have a discrepancy with the first one. An army of fools is very useful in some cases… such as data entry or product testing.
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