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The Monster Approach to Testing

English, Hackmeck

What’s going on in our security test lab? That’s a long story I cannot tell in a single post. Security testing is a mixture of structured analysis and playful exploration. The latter one boils down to a single rule: try the most irregular, stupid, nonsensical, unexpected action that comes to your mind. Chances are that the developers of a system did not think of it because it’s so irregular, stupid, nonsensical or unexpected. And always question the vendor’s claims – as well as your own assumptions.

The Sesame Street Computer Monster in this video does just that:

Olympiad of Misguided Geeks

English, Events

Worse Than Failure, formerly known as The Daily WTF, is running the Olympiad of Misguided Geeks contest:

»Readers are invited to be creative with devising a calculator with the craziest code they can write. One lucky and potentially insane winner will get either a brand new MacBook Pro or comparable Sony VAIO laptop.«

The goal is:

»… to solve an incredibly simple problem using the most obscenely convoluted way imaginable. And for this first contest, the simple problem is to build and implement the logic for a four-function calculator.«

Submissions are due May 14, 2007, 11:59 PM EST.