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Eating your own dog food

Most of the organizations I’ve been a part of, the IT staff usually has exemptions from IT policies if not significantly escalated privileges. This distances them from their users. I also happen to know and test MANY different ways to circumvent the policies and controls in place on the network. You can’t [...]

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2006 07 18 brad Article Comments Off

Trust.

As a programmer, I’ve had the concept of “DON’T EVER TRUST YOUR USERS” beaten into my head. For programmers, this concept is incredibly important. Users almost always exceed your expectations for creativity with your new application. By planning for unexpected input, and properly cleaning all variables you can theoretically account for abuses [...]

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2006 07 12 brad Article Comments (2)