azurelunatic: "beautiful addiction", electron microscope photo of caffeine (caffeine)
Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance 2011-07-30 04:56 am (UTC)

Re: DW is love right now.

Some terminology nuance -- 'bug' tends to be a (known or unknown) unintentionally created flaw that causes a problem, either when something's wrong by itself, or two or more things that would be OK on their own come together and create a problem -- like, there's nothing inherently bad about a toddler, and nothing inherently bad about an unlidded jar of peanut butter, but put the two together and there's a problem, especially when the cat then walks by.

Then there's a whole class of jargon for security problems -- there are bugs that are also 'vulnerabilities', weak points that could be attacked by someone. Sometimes the vulnerabilities will be exploited, which was what I think you were hoping wasn't happening.

*brews some more sympathetic coffee, finds some Diet Coke with lime for [staff profile] denise*

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