Chapter 8. Abuse Cases[1]

Abuse CasesAbuse casesAbuse casesoverviewMisuse cases.Abuse cases.Touchpointslist ofabuse casesUMLUse casesAbuse cases.Parts of this chapter appeared in original form in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine co-authored with Paco Hope and Annie Anton [Hope, McGraw, and Anton 2004].
 

To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit—ever. They’re like the Viet Cong—Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.

 
 --BILL MURRAY (AS CARL SPACKLER IN CADDYSHACK)

Software development is all about making software do something. People who build software tend to describe software requirements in terms of what a system will do when everything goes right—when users are cooperative and helpful, when environments are pristine and friendly, and when code is defect free. The focus is on functionality ...

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