TO best describe my personal code of ethic's read on: "As builders and developers, we know the threats to security, and we constantly work for better security on system's." It's the idea of publicising and making problem's utterly public that can prove to be dangerous. Take for example the recent love bug. One came out then 20 more were made over night. Maybe many more would have been made if we went and put the source code on a highly visible site.
I am not and advocate for MSIE, or even Netscape both are suck browsers... However cookies are an integral part ("standard") of a browser. In fact did you know that the services at Hotmail, and Amazon (one click shop) wouldnt even work without the damn cookies?
I am sick of cookie bashers, however. Busting out all kinds of hysteria and privacy garbage. There is a bad side to every method. Including secure transactions. Why not just say it like it is for alot of crucial technologies on the net? why not state: "Did you know that every time you do a secure transaction you run a risk of a third party listening and taking your credit card number?" How about we just do a loud campaign that preaches to the world that there pocket book can be stolen if they use the web! Lets really shoot our foot boys!
If every one knew just how unsafe secure transactions are on the net, we would all be in alot of trouble, and possibly out of work in the long run.
Nothing is fail proof, or impossible to breach in our web medium... You should all know that by now.
Keep in mind As a developer sometimes there is only one way to go for a solution.. Technology will change and maybe get better but it wont ever stop the real "hardcore coder". Politics are at large and for now the powers that be are actually in our favor. So lets try and be "Nice" about what we do and say within our medium.
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TO best describe my personal code of ethic's read on: "As builders and developers, we know the threats to security, and we constantly work for better security on system's." It's the idea of publicising and making problem's utterly public that can prove to be dangerous. Take for example the recent love bug. One came out then 20 more were made over night. Maybe many more would have been made if we went and put the source code on a highly visible site.
I am not and advocate for MSIE, or even Netscape both are suck browsers...
However cookies are an integral part ("standard") of a browser. In fact did you know that the services at Hotmail, and Amazon (one click shop) wouldnt even work without the damn cookies?
I am sick of cookie bashers, however. Busting out all kinds of hysteria and privacy garbage. There is a bad side to every method. Including secure transactions. Why not just say it like it is for alot of crucial technologies on the net? why not state: "Did you know that every time you do a secure transaction you run a risk of a third party listening and taking your credit card number?" How about we just do a loud campaign that preaches to the world that there pocket book can be stolen if they use the web! Lets really shoot our foot boys!
If every one knew just how unsafe secure transactions are on the net, we would all be in alot of trouble, and possibly out of work in the long run.
Nothing is fail proof, or impossible to breach in our web medium... You should all know that by now.
Keep in mind As a developer sometimes there is only one way to go for a solution.. Technology will change and maybe get better but it wont ever stop the real "hardcore coder". Politics are at large and for now the powers that be are actually in our favor. So lets try and be "Nice" about what we do and say within our medium.
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