Category Archives: Software engineering

Security Isn’t Secure

That is, information security is not intellectually secure. Almost every precept of orthodox information security...

Designing Privacy by Design

I am speaking at next week’s AusCERT security conference, on how to make privacy real...

Let’s talk about privacy, in engineering terms

I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists’ thinking about...

A software engineer’s memoir (work in progress)

I’m an ex software “engineer” [I have reservations about that term] with some life experience...

Programming is like playwriting

The software-as-a-profession debate continues largely untouched by each generation’s innovations in production methods. Most of...

We’re not ready for genetic engineering

Update September 2012 The recent discovery that junk DNA is not actually junk rather reinforces...