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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock."
"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it."
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."
"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."
"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
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