Security.c#

As you may recall, the Sumerians had a lot of trouble with the security of the pyramids. Most of the tombs were robbed of their riches shortly after they were completed.

What they failed to do was work through all their use cases and review their designs with a security checklist in mind. A step further would have been to work through a fault-tree analysis for every possible security failure.

Sometimes in modern open source, we expect to identify security problems and defects by having "many eyes" look at the code. The Sumerian code reminds us that any kind of code review can be hard if the code does not follow the style guidelines that we are familar with.

What if our positions were reversed? Just imagine how confused the Sumarins would be if they had to read our Hungarian notation.