[SystemSafety] Does "reliable" mean "safe" and or "secure" or neither?

[Gergely Buday]

That's an  ideal sw that gives the same output on the same input, but that
is not always the case.

On Sunday, 24 April 2016, Michael J. Pont <M.Pont at safetty.net> wrote:

> Roberto asks:
>
> "Can we talk about the reliability of the components in the context
>   of the overall system, without any knowledge about how they implement
>   their functionality (e.g., hardware only, hardware + little bit of
>   software, hardware + lots of software, hardware + software + humans)?"
>
> If our definition of reliability is something like this (from my previous
> email):
>
> "the extent to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the
> same results on repeated trials"
>
> ... then the software cannot contribute to the above discussion (because
> the
> software doesn't change over time).
>
> Michael.
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