Root Canal Treatment vs Source Code Review

[jleffler at us.ibm.com (Jonathan Leffler)]

Under the subject "InternetNews Realtime IT News - Merchants Cope With PCI 
Compliance", Kenneth Van Wyk <ken at krvw.com> wrote:
[...] In talking with my customers over the past several months, I always 
find it interesting that the vast majority would sooner have root canal 
than submit their source code to anyone for external review. [...]

There's a simple reason for that reluctance - most people are painfully 
aware that their software won't stand the scrutiny that an external review 
would entail.

-- 
Jonathan Leffler (jleffler at us.ibm.com)
STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Information Management
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