back to article App dev security – where are the risks?

Thanks for some great comments from the article about making applications more secure. One of my favourites was, “It's all very well trying to make your software idiot proof, but the problem is that the world keeps creating bigger and better idiots.” How true this often appears. Meanwhile, from secure applications we can turn …

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  1. protee

    Citation

    The exact quote (which your reader failed to give accurately) is:

    "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning"

    —Rick Cook

  2. Adrian Midgley 1

    source code

    Whatever "IP" is, a lot of source code is not it of the company.

    If they are using the sensible approach of sharing risk and cost by cooperating with others in building staple parts.

    I suspect that a company only derives benefit from source code which is unique to it to the extent that that source code represents a way of thinking andd acting which is not only unique to the company, but which no other company or group of people _could_ do.

    Which is to say, quite rarely.

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