Pretty scary article about how new SSL-evading trojans work. I'm going to use a live Linux CD to do my online banking from now on - and I'm going to tell my girlfriend how to do that too. A good start for live Linux is Knoppix and here is a list of other compilations. Simply boot from CD or DVD, start the browser and do your online banking. Since the CD or DVD is read-only you can't easily catch a virus. Another possibility would be to run the free VMware Player with the browser appliance virtual machine - but this requires installation of software.
Requegesis is the critical interpretation of requirements. It’s at the same time an art and methodical approach to understand history, origin, background (also cultural), criticality and validity of requirements. The goal of requegesis is to find the best functional response to requirements while taking liberty in their interpretation. The word “requegesis” itself is a portmanteau - a linguistic blend - of the two words “requirement” and “exegesis”. The first part of the word “requ” is used in the traditional sense of the " singular documented physical and functional need that a particular design, product or process must be able to perform ". The second part of the word exegesis (from the greek “to lead out”) is the “ critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text. “ I think exegesis with the connotation of being used for religious texts underlines the way some requirements being treated as sacrosanct rather than critically interpreted ...
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