Month: April 2016

  • Predicting the Future

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    Ray Keefe
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    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…

  • Software Security

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    Ray Keefe
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    Security of Software Systems This post looks at security of software systems in the embedded realm. We are fortunate to have some good recommendations from IEEE on this topic. The first looks at avoiding Software Security Design Flaws. The summary is outlined below:   Earn or give, but never assume, trust. Make sure all data…