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Fairfax IT: Riding software’s next big wave of opportunity

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 18, 1999

Thanks to Matthew Wright
for this link.

“A CHANCE vacancy found on a napkin at a computing conference in
the US landed an Australian Linux programmer a job with one of the
world’s hottest firewall vendors.”

“He says this sort of peer review is the only way security
products such as firewalls and cryptography can be developed,
because the code can pass through so many hands and problems
spotted before they become critical.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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