Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.