Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Mythbusting, Secure code is less expensive to develop
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Security on May 3rd, 2009
…The elephant in the room is vulnerabilities are NOT the same as functional problems and the quote from the aforementioned article references research from 1987. That’s pre-World Wide Web! Data predating C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, and even Perl — certainly reason enough to question its applicability in today’s landscape.
What’s The Deal with OAuth?
Posted by Ara Pehlivanian in Security, Twitter on April 23rd, 2009
OAuth is an open protocol that Twitter is experimenting with along with other companies such as Yahoo, Netflix, and Google. The idea is that folks can use awesome Twitter related applications and services like We Follow or TipJoy without giving away their account credentials.