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Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 0) 154

This is only really a useful observation if you can tell me ahead of time which developers are competent and which ones are incompetent.

If you are hiring a developer your chances of finding one who is not incompetent is vanishingly small. The correct approach is to train them to be competent, and set standards. This should begin with requiring the bug tracker to be emptied out (or decreasing bug count, if the total number is currently overwhelmingly large), and there are plenty of online and in-person resources for training developers to learn how to write secure code.

and use tools like memory-safe languages to mitigate that risk.

Security vulnerabilities happen in every language. Anyone who thinks the language will make them safe is an idiot. What I mean is, you are an idiot, cmseagle 1195671.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 4, Insightful) 154

The problem as I see it is coming up with good standards. We do have standards in some places, for example, SOX requires changing passwords every three months as best practices. But that is probably not actually best practice, so the wrong thing was codified.

How do we get the right things codified is the question.

Comment Re: We are going so fast we need to slow down! (Score 1) 118

** - It seems dubious that Truman really understood what he was signing onto.

My take was that he could have stopped it if he wanted to, but the bureaucratic machine was already in motion, and he would have had to put some effort into stopping it. I'm glad we didn't bomb Kyoto but maybe Xi will.

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