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Category Archives: Business
On Trashing
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, people who wanted to clandestinely gain information about a company or organisation would go trashing.[*] That just meant diving in the bins to find information about the company structure – who worked there, who … Continue reading
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Which vendor “is least secure”?
The people over at Intego have a blog post, Which big vendor is least secure? They discuss that because Microsoft have upped their game, malware authors have started to target other products, notably those produced by Adobe and Apple. That … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Responsibility, threatmodel, Vulnerability
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How to hire Graham Lee
There are few people who can say that when it comes to Cocoa application security, they wrote the book. In fact, I can think of only one: me. I’ve just put the final draft together for Professional Cocoa Application Security … Continue reading
Next Swindon CocoaHeads meeting
At one time a quiet market town with no greater claim than to break up the journey between Oxford and Bristol, Swindon is now a bustling hub of Mac and iPhone development activity. The coming meeting of CocoaHeads, at the … Continue reading
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Solaris iPhone Edition
Apple’s one new feature in Snow Leopard is support for Exchange, which if not squarely an Enterprise lure is certainly bait for medium businesses. But here we hit Apple’s perennial problem; they want to sell more into businesses (because that’s … Continue reading
It was asked for: the “features” post
Someone anonymous once said:I’m intrigued by your feature comment. Please publish said blog post!Where said comment was:The fact that I have stopped using the word ‘feature’ in many contexts is an entire blog post and a few therapy sessions in … Continue reading
Overdoing the risk management
I own a notebook. In fact, I own several notebooks. One in particular has an interesting feature (where I use “feature” in the “different from the competition, though we don’t know whether anyone actually needs it” sense); inside the front … Continue reading
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