Comments on: Secret data may give Qantas a QF72 clue http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/secret-data-may-give-qantas-a-qf72-clue/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:44:24 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mike smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/secret-data-may-give-qantas-a-qf72-clue/#comment-14765 mike smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14765 Yes, but Alf, if the HDD in a PC fails, it doesn't kill hundreds of people. Putting DRMP[1] into a safety or mission critical application may well do that. <br /><br />Would you fly on a plane that you knew had software that had been audited only by the manufacturer?<br /><br />[1] http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7225637142.html<br /> Yes, but Alf, if the HDD in a PC fails, it doesn’t kill hundreds of people. Putting DRMP[1] into a safety or mission critical application may well do that.

Would you fly on a plane that you knew had software that had been audited only by the manufacturer?

[1] http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7225637142.html

]]> By: Alf http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/secret-data-may-give-qantas-a-qf72-clue/#comment-14766 Alf Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14766 Years ago, in another life as a small computer shop owner. I used to do something similar. After getting tired of checks bouncing and then the inevitable weeks/months trying to get paid... I had myself a small (lock-off partition) section too :-) <br /><br />After a while, if the payments still had not been received - catastrophic HDD failures... terrible for those who owned the data... a happy coincidence for me... tended to occur :-) Years ago, in another life as a small computer shop owner. I used to do something similar. After getting tired of checks bouncing and then the inevitable weeks/months trying to get paid… I had myself a small (lock-off partition) section too :-)

After a while, if the payments still had not been received - catastrophic HDD failures… terrible for those who owned the data… a happy coincidence for me… tended to occur :-)

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