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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 [...]

Posted 18 July 2006 † brad § Article ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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 [...]

Posted 12 July 2006 † brad § Article ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,