Tuesday, February 04, 2003

New from Fowler "January: I've put together a brief catalog of the patterns in my Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture book." A little online reference material. 10:44:29 AM    comment []

Security Matt Blaze: "Although a few people have confused my reporting of the vulnerability (in master-keyed locks) with causing the vulnerability itself, I can take comfort in a story that Richard Feynman famously told about his days on the Manhattan project. Some simple vulnerabilities (and user interface problems) made it easy to open most of the safes in use at Los Alamos. He eventually demonstrated the problem to the Army officials in charge. Horrified, they promised to do something about it. The response? A memo ordering the staff to keep Feynman away from their safes." [Hack the Planet] Some entertaining words that apply to our industry... 10:27:04 AM    comment []