19Mar/090
Turd Polishing
I ran across an article about the six dumbest ideas in computer security. Great article, but out of all of it I found on quote particularly relevent to a past project.
"Let's go production with it now and we can secure it later" - no, you won't. A better question to ask yourself is "If we don't have time to do it correctly now, will we have time to do it over once it's broken?" Sometimes, building a system that is in constant need of repair means you will spend years investing in turd polish because you were unwilling to spend days getting the job done right in the first place.
Ain't that the truth.