Re:The Insecurity Industry
by Spooky23 on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:51PM
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Liability just means more controls to avoid blame and tighter specifications. Malpractice laws don’t make doctors less dangerous, they mostly encourage ass covering exercises.
I worked at a place that had a formally verified application running on some mainframe. It was wonderful, except that the process was excruciating and maintaining that validation prevented any changes. Every code change cost a minimum of $25,000 2002 dollars.
It was dumb. They would have been better off with a paper process and army of clerks.
I worked at a place that had a formally verified application running on some mainframe. It was wonderful, except that the process was excruciating and maintaining that validation prevented any changes. Every code change cost a minimum of $25,000 2002 dollars.
It was dumb. They would have been better off with a paper process and army of clerks.