Richi Jennings

Richi Jennings
Independent industry analyst, editor, and content strategist. Richi Jennings is a former developer and marketer. He’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, DevOps.com, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.

Recent Posts from Richi Jennings

July 7, 2022

Devs: Don’t do DIY cryptography — Police CyberAlarm shows why

It’s a truism often repeated: Don’t roll your own cryptography! The Police CyberAlarm service deftly shows why.
June 30, 2022

Copilot's rocky takeoff: GitHub ‘steals code’

Should you use GitHub Copilot? “No,” say open-source fans. “Heck no,” say lawyers. “Yeah,” say the sort of devs who do Stack Exchange copypasta.
June 23, 2022

Rejoice, devs and all! Privacy Pass standard nukes CAPTCHAs

Apple is to support the new Privacy Pass standard, to “attest” that its users aren’t robots. Google is expected to be close behind.
June 16, 2022

Software supply chain alert: ‘7 million’ cleartext access tokens in Travis CI logs

Travis CI cleartext logs are trivially easy to access—all 770 million of them. And researchers have found lots of sensitive data in a sample.
June 7, 2022

How to make C++ memory-safe? Chrome targets UAF bugs with garbage collection

The solution to use-after-free bugs is to *not* free memory. Google’s Chrome team is the latest group to jump on the “temporal memory safety” bandwagon.
June 2, 2022

Proposal: It’s time to regulate and license devs

Software engineers are engineers. So why don’t we regulate them—as we do other professions that build critical infrastructure?