Postfix's Creator Outlines Spam Solution

SATAN writes "Wietse Venema started out as a physicist, but became interested in the security of the programs he wrote to control his physics experiments. He went on to create several well-known network and security tools, including the Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) and The Coroner's Toolkit with Dan Farmer. He is also the creator of the popular MTA Postfix and TCP Wrapper. SecurityFocus chatted up Venema to talk about software security, how to improve the code quality, what solutions we might have to fight spam successfully, the principle of least privilege, and the philosophy behind the design of Postfix. Venema is currently a researcher at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center."

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Re:I lost a lot of respect for Wietse Venema

[Rahga]

There's all sorts of low pressure work to do at Morgan Stanley... For example:

* Schmooze with Paulson and Bernanke.
* Knock the ball into the cup.
* Read twitters from your best buds at Goldman Sachs

It used to be busier before they had to remove a few items from that list like...
* Play with Credit Default Swaps
* Short Sell