Dr. Ed Gerck of Network Manifold Associates (NMA) has solved the problem, and been written up in a number of books and magazines. He's opened a new company called Safevote that solves most of these problems (and is addressing core problems with SSL, which can be hacked far easier than I thought); it's done by defining "trust", doing away with stored password lists and the like, and breaking up authentication into multiple roles, sort of like the three branches of government. Check it out at SafeVote.
No, don't throw up your hands; use extreme programming. In effect, break the problem down into smaller and smaller chunks until its estimation is achievable, and then correct and refine estimates as you proceed through a series of iterations. Release cycles are short, perhaps two months, and you can release a fully tested project at any time.
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Dr. Ed Gerck of Network Manifold Associates (NMA) has solved the problem, and been written up in a number of books and magazines. He's opened a new company called Safevote that solves most of these problems (and is addressing core problems with SSL, which can be hacked far easier than I thought); it's done by defining "trust", doing away with stored password lists and the like, and breaking up authentication into multiple roles, sort of like the three branches of government. Check it out at SafeVote.
No, don't throw up your hands; use extreme programming. In effect, break the problem down into smaller and smaller chunks until its estimation is achievable, and then correct and refine estimates as you proceed through a series of iterations. Release cycles are short, perhaps two months, and you can release a fully tested project at any time.
Well, we could remove them with high-power lasers. This has already been proposed, and is quite feasible:
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