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Category Archives: Business
A Cupertino Yankee in the Court of King Ballmer
This post summarises my opinions of Windows Phone 7 from the Microsoft Tech Day I went to yesterday. There’s a new version of Windows Phone 7 (codenamed Mango) due out in the Autumn, but at the Tech Day the descriptions … Continue reading
Posted in Business, iPad, iPhone, Mac, tool-support, WebObjects, WinPhone
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“Patently” secure
One thing that occasionally becomes interesting about working in security is that doing security and managing business have a great deal of overlap. This makes a lot of sense: a business wants to be profitable, and profit is a reward … Continue reading
On internal quality
I was asked by attendees at my VTM talk on test-driven development a small collection of questions on a similar theme, which I’ll summarise here. How do I do TDD when my boss doesn’t want me to? What do I … Continue reading
Posted in Business, code-level, Responsibility, software-engineering, Talk, TDD, VTM
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On my own competency
There was a question on programmers.stackexchange.com about whether to put your Stack Overflow reputation in your CV. I don’t, and answered as much: there’s no point in writing for its own sake, unless you want to be a writer. If … Continue reading
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On the broken(?) Mac App Store
A day after the Mac App Store was launched, people are reporting that it has been cracked. There are two separate stories here, a vapourware circumvention of the FairPlay DRM used to generate the receipts and a report that certain … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crypto, Encryption, Mac, Vulnerability
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Protecting source code
As I mentioned on the missing iDeveloper.tv Live episode, one of the consequences of the Gawker hack was that their source code for their internal software was leaked into the Internet. I doubt any of my readers would want that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, code-level, Data Leakage, Encryption, Policy, Responsibility, software-engineering
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On the Mac App Store
I’ve just come off iDeveloper.TV Live with Scotty and John, where we were talking about the Mac app store. I had some material prepared about the security side of the app store that we didn’t get on to – here’s … Continue reading
Posted in AAPL, Business, code-level, Encryption, government, iDeveloper.TV, Mac, Policy, Talk
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On Fuzzy Aliens
I have just launched a new company, Fuzzy Aliens[*], offering application security consultancy services for smartphone app developers. This is not the FAQ list, this is the “questions I want to answer so that they don’t become frequently asked” list. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, code-level, iPad, iPhone, Privacy, software-engineering, threatmodel
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On free Mac Anti-Virus
On Tuesday, my pals at my old stomping ground Sophos launched their Free home edition Mac product. I’ve been asked by several people what makes it tick, so here’s Mac Anti-Virus In A Nutshell. What is the AV doing? So … Continue reading
Posted in antivirus, Business, Malware, PCAS
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Rumors of your runtime’s death are greatly exaggerated
This is supposed to be the week in which Apple killed Java and Flash on the Mac, but it isn’t. In fact, looking at recent history, Flash could be about to enter its healthiest period on the platform, but the … Continue reading
Posted in AAPL, Business, Updates
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