3 ms·
My brakes don't have an about menu, they don't have a monitor, and they don't have a mouse. Everyone agrees they are safety critical. My point was to demonstra
by jjoonathan 5y ago
My brakes don't have an about menu, they don't have a monitor, and they don't have a mouse. Everyone agrees they are safety critical.
My point was to demonstrate through a nonsensical example that different environments have different ambient expectations for reliability. If a problem in a low-reliability environment propagates to a high-reliability environment, the root cause is the failure of isolation, not the bug or exploit in the low-reliability environment.
Now, I would never actually ship an easter egg, but that's because I have no faith in the corporate blame game to correctly assign blame, not because I place the slightest stock in the idea that safety and security are a genuine reason why it shouldn't be done.
This is why we can't have nice things.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoI would argue that curl is safety critical. And it's a very nice thing, and we have it.
- jjoonathan 5y ago> I would argue that curl is safety critical. O.O That opinion scares me. Genuinely. Have you seen its protocol list grow in recent years? It has taken on a hundred thousand easter eggs worth of overhead to add 26 protocols, of which you probably use 2, but you consider it safety critical?