Re: Hackability

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Mike Dixon <michael.dixon_at_denovosoftware.com
> wrote:

> Rafael M. Heise wrote:
> > If anyone knows something more about Hackability, please, let me know!
>
> Here's the language progression to get to Hackability:
>
> to hack (verb): to write code. This is the benign usage of hack.
>
> hackable (adjective): possible to hack. To say that something is
> "hackable" is saying that the the code is clear and understandable,
> which makes it easy to maintain and extend.
>
> hackability (noun): the measure of how hackable a particular codebase is.
>
> The following statements are equivalent:
> "The SVN codebase can easily be maintained, expanded and improved."
> "SVN is easy to hack."
> "SVN is very hackable."
> "SVN has a lot of hackability."
>

Personally, if I read either option (2) or (3), then it could be a bit
concerning from a security point of view.

If an article stated that "Website X is easy to hack" or "Database product Y
is very hackable", I wouldn't be thinking "Website X is easy to maintain", I
would be thinking "Website X is not very secure".

Just my $0.02 (incl. GST).

Cheers,
Daniel B.

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Received on 2009-09-02 02:59:51 CEST