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Security piece finally makes it to MSDN
It took more than a year, but a piece I wrote reviewing "best practices" security principles as applied to the well-known .NET "reference" applications (PetShop, F&M, Duwamish) finally made it onto MSDN last week. As you might imagine, the security aspects of these applications don't stand up well when a strong light is shown on them. And yet...what else is there? How are developers, designers, and architects supposed to deal with security when all they have to look at is simple marketing-oriented demos or 2,000 pages of detailed guidance, with nothing in between?
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Scoble on the cover of Fortune mag (Asia)
My friend Susi Johnston - enroute to the US from Bali, where she's been organizing a major relief effort to Aceh for the past 3 weeks - sent me an email from Narita with the subject: