[SystemSafety] OpenSSL Bug

[RICQUE Bertrand (SAGEM DEFENSE SECURITE)]

It IS useful as long as you need a guilty person !

Bertrand Ricque
Program Manager
Optronics and Defence Division
Sights Program
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From: systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of C. Michael Holloway
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:24 PM
To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] OpenSSL Bug


On 4/16/14 11:36 AM, Steve Tockey wrote:



Actually I'm going to respectfully disagree with that. I'm going to claim

I can trace it back to incomplete requirements & resulting inadequate

design.

I agree that this trace is possible.  It is possible for nearly all (perhaps all) errors in software to be analyzed so as to find a plausible way in which the error is "really" a mistake in requirements.

Just as it is possible to "blame" the pilot for nearly every airplane accident, so, too it is possible to "blame" the requirements for nearly every software problem.  The latter is no more useful than the former.
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cMh

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