"Machines are simple: a hammer, a door hinge, a steak knife. Systems are much more complicated; they have components, feedback loops, mean times between failure, infrastructure. Digital systems are daedal; even a simple computer program has hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code doing all sorts of different things. A complex computer program has thousands of components, each of which has to work by itself and in interaction with all the other components. This is why object-oriented programming was developed: to deal with the complexity of digital systems...systems have bugs. A bug is a particular kind of failure...It's different from a malfunction. When something malfunctions, it no longer works properly. When something has a bug, it misbehaves in a particular way, possibly unrepeatable, and possibly unexplainable. Bugs are unique to systems. Machines can break, or fail, or not work, but only a system can have a bug."
- Bruce Schneier -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Our weekly Security Engineering meeting is open to the Mozilla community and will take place on Thursday July 12 at 3 PM PDT. https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering Our standing agenda is : * Review currently active (P1) features against their established milestones, identify any blockers - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Roadmap - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Roadmap * Review roadmap priorities to ensure they accurately reflect active projects and Mozilla's priorities * Suggest additions or changes to roadmaps * Detailed discussion of features or outstanding issues as time permits * Upcoming events, OOO/travel, etc. Meeting details: * Thursday,July 12, 2012, 3 PM PDT * Conference room 3-P, Mountain View office, 3rd floor. (This week: also in SF office in 7-N (Noise Pop)) * Dial-in Info: - Vidyo room: MV-3P (Peanut Butter Jelly Time!) - In office or soft phone: extension 92 - US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 - Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 - Conference num 95346 * IRC backchannel: #security Previous Meeting's Notes : https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/MeetingNotes/07-05-12 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
