Evolving Internet standards beyond ‘rough consensus and working code’
One of the more useful things about science fiction (and I am enamored by science fiction) is not just the science or the fiction but some of the more thoughtful plot points used to drive the larger narrative. One such remarkable one is the “three laws of robotics” construct invented by the science fiction maestro, […]
Rethinking Open Source security
By now you’ve been sufficiently terrorized by the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL; a rotten bounds checking error in the C code for that security library that secured about 40% of the Internet. If you have not checked your servers, you should do so now here. I’m rocking mostly IIS in my private cloud so I’m […]