When we read about half a billion passwords stolen from a sophisticated Internet
service, it might hard to believe, but software is more secure today than it ever has been before. The industry has come a long way.
The Security Legacy
The first commercial software project I worked on in my software career did not have a quality assurance program. When sales sold a copy of the system, the development manager went around to the developers’ desks gathering a handful of eight-inch floppy disks containing the developer’s current best work. The handful of disks went ...
