flaws in comment and analysis
Minority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment OK, it had some little idiosyncrasies - little rattles and tiny flaws. Snow Leopard is not a brand new car, just the one you've already got with a lot of the flaws, problems and squeaks ironed out and... [16 Sep 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment Considering the large number of vulnerabilities that are found in web-based applications, it is of great importance that security is built into applications early on in the software development lifecycle - and that they are tested... [22 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Government IT ignoring red lights?
Comment Work stops on £224m kids' database after security flaws found The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Government IT took a beating, with... [30 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Home Office hacking powers go too far
Comment This means that firewalls and antivirus must have flaws to be exploited by the police, thus opening a great big door for cybercrime. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader... [23 Jan 2009]
A first look at Windows 7 in action
Comment Despite its obvious flaws and acknowledging that some of its features need to be disabled by default, Vista at heart is a much more stable and usable operating system than XP, which was first released back in 2001. [08 Jan 2009]
Legal Eye: Do we need GPLv3?
Comment However, open source advocates will argue that giving free and unrestricted access to a program's source code will lead to improvements in the software, with the community ironing out creases, identifying flaws and... [15 Oct 2008]
Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment The first step in this plan is what Pavitt calls the "infrastructure 101" - making sure all the fundamentals at the network and core infrastructure level are there, removing single points of failure, removing design... [29 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment According to this concept your system can have plenty of flaws - but if nobody knows where they are it isn't a problem. The idea is that if the rest of the execs can't spot the CIO's flaws, then they... [06 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment There are some actual flaws in the operating system itself but these are buried under a mound of mostly irrelevant flaws with respect to how users of OS X use OS X. He did the same thing last spring, he... [03 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Among the concerns raised by official independent election observers from the Open Rights Group (ORG) were fears that flaws in systems already used could allow hackers to steal authentication details, monitor how... [29 Jun 2007]
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Comment Are there any flaws at the design level? Why is Sun's Java going the GPL open source route? Are software development costs doomed to spiral out of control? And is Microsoft destined to rule the enterprise forever? [19 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: You're not travelling, you're atlarge.com
Comment A top-down directory has its flaws. Before the end of the year I wanted to take the opportunity to use (abuse? this blog to talk about atlarge.com. Not being averse to dot-coms - and not shying away from a suffix that I... [19 Dec 2006]
Leader: Bird flu threat highlights disaster-planning flaws
Leader The threat of a worldwide flu pandemic - whether you believe it is being over-hyped or not - on the back of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, highlights some serious problems with business continuity planning today: the human angle. [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: Why public support for ID cards is falling
Leader The government looks set to continue its attempts to steamroller its ID cards legislation through parliament this week, despite evidence that public support for the controversial scheme is collapsing as people - albeit belatedly - begin... [13 Mar 2006]
Leader: IT at the heart of T5
Leader But you can't decide on your technology too early - if you do, the technology becomes obsolete or its flaws become known and exploited. The construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport is a massive project that will... [20 Feb 2006]
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