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Contents
ISSUE 281 • SEPTEMBER 2012
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
10 Letters Keeping software delivery on track
12 C++ moves front and center
12 Living, breathing agile
NEWS
14 Nokia dumps remaining Qt assets
17 Storage software expands dev options
20 Agile2012: Scaling, strategy
22 Planning software on display at Agile2012
24 Mobile Backend-as-a-Service arrives to support
device apps
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26 Outsourcing narrows focus to task level
FEATURES
30 Cybercrime: How to protect against it
34 Syncfusion adds Windows Azure support C++ update: Building blocks for the future
COLUMNS
73 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien
page 47
Opening inspirations
75 ANALYST VIEWby Diego Lo Giudice
Before going agile, embrace change
77 GUEST VIEWby Simon Hopkins
Shoot the programmer
78 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
Need for speed? Take a look at DTO
Coming soon: iOS 6, Jelly Bean
and Windows Phone 8
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OPINION
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SD Times September 2012 www.sdtimes.com
FFEEEEDDBBAACCKK
An assertion not else discovers that one machine in a tunity. Especially since 2001, we have
network has served as a platform for as a society created—with no broad
well designed
network discovery, surveillance and agreement—a surveillance state that
control, leaving an agent on each regards effective network defense as a
I read, with some interest, Lisa’s article
machine or just returning to each threat. So self-defense for many of us
(“Development and design converge...
machine as needed. Sometimes attack- may do more harm than good.
but not completely,” July 2012, p. 38).
ers come and go, leaving no trace, but In all cases, those looking to pwn
As a software engineer with over 40
generally they stay on once the breach your box prefer that you do not detect
years of “software design” experience, I
is exploited. In fact, sometimes multi- their presence. Generally the attackers
find it disconcerting the “graphical UI
ple attackers occupy a machine, and succeed in not being found. Finding
designer” community seems to be
they may get into disagreements. their presence is not a simple thing, and
coopting the phrase “design” (at least as
I had such a situation, with malicious smug confidence that your system is
Lisa seems to use it) as if they were
common criminals exploiting in one clean impedes discovery. Once
somehow specially deserving of the
case a standard US backdoor, and in entrenched, the toolkits prove difficult
unadjectivized term “design.” They
another the old Sony rootkit. They jos- to remove, even if you change equip-
deserve their role, but the tone of the
tled one another, and when I blocked ment. To hear experienced administra-
whole article (e.g., “Developer involve-
network traffic completely, I found the tors talking about wiping disks and rein-
ment in Design” means “User interface
U.S. government on my systems, having stalling systems as curative for these
design”) implicitly offends me. UIs are
forced its way in upon finding the front issues really saddens me. We have a lot
important but not everything, and UI
door locked, leaving the network vulner- of willful ignorance of the computer-
design is not first among equals. Every
able to anyone looking for adventure. security crisis. Unfortunately as well,
engineer designs, in his discipline.
Now the FBI, DHS, etc. want Congress the industry has willingly undermined
Ira D. Baxter
to legalize retroactively the horse poo network and machine and software safe-
Semantic Designs
these and other relevant agencies have ty with backdoors, among other ways.
been doing for the last decade. None of us cannot afford compla-
The illusion of
With the U.S. government heavily cency on this, and we put more than
security involved in hacking its citizenry, and our networks at risk where we descend
with other parties (local law enforce- into complicity.
Please allow me to amend the claim
ment, media companies, computer Robert Callahan
that “Sometimes we don’t even know
manufacturers and vendors, industry United States
that a successful attack occurred”
lobbying groups, Web vigilantes, and,
(“Zeichick’s Take: Preying on the weak- What do you think?
yes, software developers, among oth-
nesses,” sdt.bz/36877). The standard Letters to SD Times should include the
ers) who feel they have “rights” regard-
writer’s name, company affiliation and
case for some years now has been that
ing computing equipment they do not
contact information. Letters become the
we do not know when attacks have suc-
own, some of the evil originates with
property of BZ Media and may be edited.
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misguided abusers of power or oppor- Send to [email protected].
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>Of Jetsonian technologies >Hacker Hostels are the future of coding
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Chris Barylick recently wrote about near mer, but some have come up with an ad hoc solution: “You
field communication: “The idea of near may have heard a proposed solution to this problem being
field communication seems like a pipe tossed around: The idea of ‘Hacker Hostels.’ It’s an idea that
dream that’s about to come true in certainly has merit, but due to the people proposing it also
upcoming editions of iOS, Android and being the ones without homes or the means to purchase
Windows Phone, and can only get better homes, the idea has yet to take off.” Alex Handy seems to
with time.” And already there are examples of this technolo- think this idea is better than it looks: “Coders need to be
gy in use (Chris supplies a few). It may be early, but does this wired in. Broken concentration means broken code.” Are
technology have staying power? You can read for yourself at conclaves of coders a good idea? You can read more at
www.sdtimes.com/blog/2069. www.sdtimes.com/blog/2068.