04 November 2011

PCIDSS Thought for the Day

This week I was drafting a penetration test scoping document, and Word's grammar-checker gave me an interesting suggestion.

Screen capture showing Word grammar-checker's suggested revision 'The penetration tester that contravenes neither United Kingdom legislation nor any PCI-DSS requirement shall undertake nothing'

I had written a rather poorly crafted sentence, and at first Word suggested I add the word "neither" to improve readability. That seemed reasonable, but then it suggested I reword the entire sentence to: "The penetration tester that contravenes neither United Kingdom legislation nor any PCI-DSS requirement shall undertake nothing".

A fascinating insight, but not quite what I had in mind. Althought it might be true, I started my sentence from scratch again.

Posted on: 04 November 2011 at 21:37 hrs

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