Trusting software

Trusting software
Jason Miller, 2005-12-07

Open-source or closed-source, it's the same issue. Using other people's software has a lot to do with trust. If you don't trust the right people, you're putting yourself at risk.

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Trusting software 2005-12-07
Ray Kaplan (2 replies)

Re: Trusting software 2005-12-19
Anonymous

Re: Trusting software 2005-12-19
hkmaly

Note in previous post I forgot to mention reason why no personal computer or operating system has been formally proven: because it's so damn hard. You must translate every line of code to logical predicate and then solve them. Ideally by hand, because you have no software you can trust for that task ...

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