FrontPage and Word "CSS" Markup.  Be Afraid.  Be Very Afraid.

A great story from Dominey Design about FrontPage proprietary markup and fixing a site what uses it.  The only correction I would make is that this type of awful "CSS" (<P CLASS="MsoNormal" ALIGN="left" STYLE="margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: -7">) isn't FrontPage to my experience but Word documents pasted into FrontPage. 

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From Natrak: The 53rd Security Advisor This Year from Microsoft

Flaw in FrontPage.  Sheesh !  As before, please see a few of my earlier security rants:

• Rant the Second
• Rant the First

What will it take to make these people learn?  Clearly not Ballmer's comments, having Gates become technical or Jim Allchin make public pronouncements on security is working.  So here's my suggestion -- hit the developers in the pocket book i.e."If you are on project X and there is a security breach then you eitehr drop one salary grade or lose your bonus".  This is a very simplistic solution I'll admit since the flaw isn't entirely in the hands of the developers.  A lot of the blame has to fall on marketing and product / program management which ask for the proverbial "buttload of new features" while not giving time to make sure existing features are stable and secure.  Bu the solution has to start somewhere and only the developers have the ability to fix it.  So hit them where they live and if my guess would be that all of a sudden a) better coding would be a lot more important to them and b) they'd push back on new features much more aggressively.

So what do you think?  Would you prefer:

1. Less features from Microsoft but with good security?
2. More features, same security as now?
3. A chocolate milkshake for breakfast?

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Great Article: The BSDs

A really, really, really good article covering the BSD flavor of Unix..

 

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Interesting New Content Management System

Open Source, written in Perl.  Looks interesting.  Haven't evaluated at all.  Bricolage.

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