Insecurity Blues

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 27, 2007

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“It hasn’t been a good month for my code. Samba, the project I’m
responsible for, has had to announce several security flaws.
Unfortunately some of them were in code I wrote. I always do a
large amount of soul-searching whenever that happens. There’s
nothing worse than finding out something you were responsible for
is the cause of many thousands of people having to waste their time
rolling out patches. It always makes me wonder if the time has come
to give up this programming lark and end my days peacefully in
management, messing up other peoples code instead of creating my
own…”

Complete
Story

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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