New release8.2 build 764

[david at lang.hm]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> 2008/9/28  <david at lang.hm>:
>> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Carol Lerche wrote:
>>
>>> Why not call it a "tester's key"?  It is principally useful for testing
>>> late-breaking versions.
>>
>> tester key or experimenter key would be better (although experimenter key
>> may have implications that make it sound too attractive)
>
> This does disable antitheft protections, which may not be important to
> most "developers" and "testers" but are considered *very* important by
> many of our deployments.  (We can debate whether or not they are
> mistaken elsewhere, but please take it as a given for the purposes of
> this particular thread.).
>
> I find it vaguely amusing that developers, who first came up with the
> implementation, named it a "developer's key", and now the more popular
> name from the testing community is "tester's key".  It seems we're all
> a bit vain, imagining our own selves to be the most "typical" users.
> =)

I think the issue isn't who the most 'typical' users are, but rather the 
fact that the name can imply who 'should' be using it.

it may be best to just name it 'security bypass' key and then explain why 
developers and testers may want to bypass security on their systems.

David Lang