Counting from Zero by Alan B. Johnston Page A

is your secret?   ;-)
     
Regards,
     
Kat
     
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    Mick smiled self-consciously and fired off a quick response.   In truth, what accent he had depended on who he was talking to.   Talking to his relatives in England and Ireland, he would slip into a light Irish accent.   With his school friends, he seemed to be from New York.   The only accent he had never really picked up was from the town of his birth, London.   It didn't worry him, as in England, accent is used as a class indicator, and any kind of English accent would have made him categorizable, something he tried to avoid.   He didn't love everything about America, but he did love that one’s class had nothing to do with accent or birth.
     
    The next few days in Los Alamos passed without incident as he continued the investigation.   He received a reply from Kateryna.
     
Mick,
     
You know, something strange came up during our investigations into that piece of spamware you sent.   It looks like it is from a new codebase - our guys have never seen it before.   The spam pattern was also strange - they said it was almost random.   That is odd because spammers usually stick with established routes that have worked well in the past.   They think that this spamware has a very low success rate as a result.   You'd think that a new piece of software would be better than the old ones, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
     
Oh, and the second app you sent, it is virtually the same as the first one - definitely written by the same people.
     
I'll keep you posted.   Be careful riding that bike of yours...   if I'm going to see you in two weeks in Vegas, you need to stay in one piece.
     
Regards,
     
Kat
     
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    The second application or app he had sent Kateryna was the spamware from LeydenTech.   The first was the one from his own server.   Saying they came from the same codebase meant they were the work of the same set of programmers or came from the same company.
    Mick could feel himself getting closer to the truth.

Chapter B.
     
     
    From the Security and Other Lies Blog:
     
     
    I've read that open source software is more secure then commercial software.   Is this true?   raptors4ever
     
     
     
    I love this question!   :-) Let me start with a good definition of open source software.   Software is the instructions that tell a computer what to do.   When a computer is turned on, it starts running software, known as the ‘operating system’ or OS.   When you start a program such as a web browser, an editor, or a mail program, you are running software.   When you use your mobile phone, you are using software.   The actual instructions interpreted by the CPU in a computer are known as machine language, binary files, just binaries (named after the binary format they are stored in), or executable code (since the CPU executes it).   If we look at them, we just see a bunch of numbers - it is very difficult to figure out what is happening unless you are a computer.
     
    Source code is a human-friendly way of representing computer instructions.   Computer programmers or software developers create and write source code, then that source code is turned into the executable code using a piece of software known as a compiler.   Source code is written in different computer languages.   They really are languages in that they have vocabulary, syntax, and grammar, and allow one to express ideas and make a computer do what you want it to.   Whew! That was a bit