Wietse Venema Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Wietse Venema quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have.
“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.”
“I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.”
“Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.”
“Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.”
“The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.”
“The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.”
“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.”
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