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Bugs and compliance
Posted by emeade on December 22, 2004 at 09:19 PM | Comments (4)
The Patriot Act, among other things, requires companies comply with certain types of reporting. I can't help but wonder how bugs play into this... there have been reports that there is no way to get off of no fly lists, what if an off by one bug put you on one? But false positives are two easy and most the time only hurt the individual, what about false negatives? What if Sybase PATRIOTcompliance solution (or any of the other financial institutions software) had a bug which prevented the reporting of 1 in a hundred, a thousand, even a million cases. Are those companies still in compliance?
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The "Patriot Act" is an abomination. Instead of worrying about how it relates to software bugs, I suggest spending that time working on ways to get it repealed, and everyone who voted for it, removed from office.
Posted by: sprhodes on December 27, 2004 at 10:19 PM
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I'm no lawyer, but I am a voter. I wonder if one of the steps toward your goal might be showing the difficulties in enforcement? How does one measure if all this reporting is being done correctly? If something else goes wrong are the intelligence agencies going to point the finger at some other institution? Isn’t it the job of the law makers to make insure the systems are working properly? Talk about a Herculean task.
Posted by: emeade on December 28, 2004 at 09:39 AM
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Do you mean affect or effect in the title? It makes a difference.
Posted by: chuntley on December 29, 2004 at 11:59 AM
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Ya, I should say it does, Thanks. I meant affect in my blurb, effect strikes me as a cost, though it might make a good arguement for the defense.
Posted by: emeade on December 29, 2004 at 05:58 PM
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