Re:Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
by d0ugal on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:28AM
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IIUC NASA achieve high reliability for problems that don’t seem simple.
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Re:Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
by Madmallard on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:46AM
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Yeah, because their incentives strongly align with it. The argument is that the incentives don't align outside of mission critical systems.
Re:Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
by d0ugal on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:42AM
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Right, agreed. I was replying to this from the comment. Which seemed to claim it was impossible.
> We'll never achieve high reliability for anything but the simplest software
Sorry, I wasn’t very clear!
Re:Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
by AniseAbyss on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:57AM
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Sometimes your seemingly non mission critical software can be exploited in such a way that the entire system is cracked wide open.
Re:Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
by resonious on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:09AM
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True and unfortunately this doesn't often result in any damage until way later when someone buys your sensitive documents and commits fraud. By the time the fraud happens, we likely have no idea which breach the info even came from.