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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by jacquesm on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:43AM (#8532833)
Disclosures of that nature are not at the same order as writing bugs into production software.
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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by crazypyro on Thursday October 30, 2014 @10:21AM (#8533060)
Except a bug in production software can disclose that same thing, except on a much more massive scale than a human? Almost any mistake a human can make can be translated into software and expanded by many magnitudes with a software bug.
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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by bashinator on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:11PM (#8535855)
True - writing bugs into production software can be far, far worse. For example, leaking patient health information from a medical database.
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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by emodendroket on Thursday October 30, 2014 @10:08AM (#8532982)
I disagree, which is why I chose that analogy.
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