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Application developers have to make sure the programs they are writing are safe from hackers and other attacks, says John Walker.
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John Walker: debugging comments can help hackers
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Organisations are naturally concerned about the security of their IT systems. Typically, they will have deployed locked-down operating systems, securely configured internet connections, internal firewalls and routers – and taken many proactive steps, such as implementing a secure ‘DMZ’ around servers.
All of these security systems and practices are put in place, of course, to ensure the organisation’s key applications are encapsulated in a warm secure housing. Unfortunately, such a maximum-security profile cannot always be achieved unless the upfront application design itself takes security into account.
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