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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

  • From: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
  • Date: Sat Nov 01 17:20:35 2003

Dave Howe wrote:
> 
> Brian Bruns wrote:
> > My favorite quote is...
> >
> > BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the
> > Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only
> > thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP -
> > or you could put up screens - that's HTML - but software
> > couldn't talk to software.
> what *is* TCP/IP if it isn't software talking to software?

The rules software talking to softare is supposed to follow?