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Short Takes: June 15, 2009


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June 15, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 2)
E-tox
A global environmental group that targets e-waste (outdated computer and electronic equipment) called Basel Action Network (BAN) notified me last month that it had uncovered potential wrongdoing following a Humane Society-sponsored e-waste recycling event in the Pittsburgh area. The event's organizers allegedly shipped the techno-trash overseas in seven shipping containers instead of recycling it. BAN says that it tracked the waste to Hong Kong and South Africa, then notified the authorities in those countries. E-waste contains toxic elements, including cadmium, mercury and lead.

It is dismaying to me that there is no comprehensive nationwide program extant in the United States to dispose of toxic trash. Some strides have been made in e-waste collection, but now I am left wondering whether the right thing is ultimately being done.
— David Worthington

OWASP examines Struts 2
Jeff Williams, chair of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), recently told me that the organization has been increasing its research reports. One of those research groups, the Intrinsic Security Working Group (ISWG), published a security analysis of Apache’s Struts 2 framework for creating Java Web applications.

ISWG examined what security features already exist in Struts 2 and what need to be created by the developer. “It shows that Struts has some stuff built into it, but there’s an awful lot that you have to do yourself,” Williams said. “It tells developers, ‘Here’s what you get. You can’t just assume that because you wrote your app on top of Struts 2 that it’s automatically secure. There’s a lot you have to do yourself.’ ”

Visit www.owasp.org for this report and for other reports on frameworks that you might be using.
— Jeff Feinman

Google goes with the white gloves
Google's I/O developer conference, held last month, was the first such conference I've been to in years that treated developers like gold. Sun used to handle its Java folks with these spotless white gloves back during the dot-com era, and Microsoft used to do the same only a few years ago. But tight budgets at both companies have forced the frills to be funneled down into cheaper, less elaborate doses.



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