Jiri’s Notepad

Eclectic follows a discussion on SOAP security caused by Bruce Schneier’s tests to judge Microsoft Trustworthy Computing.

Replacing HTTP: “Is it a coincidence that CORBA’s biggest cheerleader, Doug Schmidt, and Microsoft’s champion for the opposition, Don Box, used to be roommates in college?” Web services vs. CORBA comparison.

“To help protect applications, a new class of software has hit the streets, designed to help customers secure their Web sites from dangers such as embarrassing defacements and theft of customer identities and corporate data. These so-called application firewalls sit between the public Internet and Web server and filter Web traffic for illegitimate data requests. […]