"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

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"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."

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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

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"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."

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"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."

Acceptance

"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."

Computer

"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."

Bugs

"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."

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"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."

Time

"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."

Work

"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."

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"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."

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"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."

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"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."

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