On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > EVERY LINE OF CODE is an opportunity for a defect. The only way > to make systems robust, is to make them simple. The problem with this argument is not that it's false. It's actually true if your problem is stated with such a limited domain. But it seems to me somewhat short sighted. Are systems with a firewall actually less secure because those without have, in fact, fewer lines of code?