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Programmer Insecurity
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| OK, so what’s the conclusion here? People are scared of sharing their
| unfinished work, plain and simple. I know this isn’t headline news to most
| people, but I really think I’ve been in deep denial about this. I’m so used
| to throwing my creative output up for constant criticism, that I simply
| expect everyone else to do it as well. I think of it as the norm, and I can’t
| comprehend why someone wouldn’t want to do that… and yet clearly, the growing
| popularity of distributed version control shows just how thrilled people are
| to hide their work from each other.
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| [...]
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| Be transparent. Share your work constantly. Solicit feedback. Appreciate
| critiques. Let other people point out your mistakes. You are not your code.
| Do not be afraid of day-to-day failures — learn from them. (As they say at
| Google, “don’t run from failure — fail often, fail quickly, and learn.”)
| Cherish your history, both the successes and mistakes. All of these behaviors
| are the way to get better at programming. If you don’t follow them, you’re
| cheating your own personal development.
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http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96
Related:
Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack
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| An analysis of Diebold's source code shows that a hacker with access to a
| single voting machine could use a virus to affect an election.
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| [...]
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| The delayed release of the source-code review meant that David Wagner, an
| associate professor of computer science at the University of California at
| Berkeley and an author of the report, was not able to present his findings at
| a public hearing held on July 30 to discuss the results of the voting system
| review.
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http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,135461/printable.html#
Halt e-voting, says election body
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| Despite the commission saying security needed to be "strengthened", Mr Will
| said: "We are pleased that the evaluations point to a high level of system
| security and user confidence in e-voting systems tested and that the security
| and integrity of the polls was not compromised.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6926625.stm
Most vote machines lose test to hackers
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| "The vendors appeared to have designed systems that were not high assurance
| (of security)," said Bishop, a recognized expert on computer security. "The
| security seems like it was added on.''
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&tsp=1
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