On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:12:07 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

> >> ... I was also been ironic on Aspo, as many times he can
> >> only counter another person's ideas asking "What if <something>
> >> cannot be trusted?", as if this constitutes a valid argument against

> > ..."anything new that cannot fail", such as airport security,
> > airliner safety, anti-missile defense, ballot machines, etc...
> > ..if you wanna push some new kinda bling, you must be able to
> > credibly answer such timeless and priceless questions... ;o)

> These are serious concerns which involve various aspects of security.
> If you need a response of your system within a given delay and
> with high security, then I think you should avoid any OS at all and
> rather program FPGAs.
> In several cases you mentionned, like ballot, crashing the system
> is not a big deal; which matters is to not deliver a wrong result.
> Better crash than give a wrong result.

In other words, always fail safe.

Cheers,

Ron.
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