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  2. Fail-safe - Wikipedia

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    Fail-secure, also called fail-closed, means that access or data will not fall into the wrong hands in a security failure. Sometimes the approaches suggest opposite solutions. For example, if a building catches fire, fail-safe systems would unlock doors to ensure quick escape and allow firefighters inside, while fail-secure would lock doors to ...

  3. Defensive programming - Wikipedia

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    Secure programming is the subset of defensive programming concerned with computer security. Security is the concern, not necessarily safety or availability (the software may be allowed to fail in certain ways). As with all kinds of defensive programming, avoiding bugs is a primary objective; however, the motivation is not as much to reduce the ...

  4. Unreachable code - Wikipedia

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    Here, there are two successive goto fail statements. In the syntax of the C language, the second is unconditional, and hence always skips the call to SSLHashSHA1.final. As a consequence, err will hold the status of the SHA1 update operation, and signature verification will never fail. [5] Here, the unreachable code is the call to the final ...

  5. Assertion (software development) - Wikipedia

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    When an assertion failure occurs, the programmer is immediately notified of the problem. Many assertion implementations will also halt the program's execution: this is useful, since if the program continued to run after an assertion violation occurred, it might corrupt its state and make the cause of the problem more difficult to locate.

  6. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    SCSA—Secure Content Storage Association; SCSI—Small Computer System Interface; SCTP—Stream Control Transmission Protocol; SD—Secure Digital; SDDL—Security Descriptor Definition Language; SDH—Synchronous Digital Hierarchy; SDI—Single-Document Interface; SEC—Single Edge Contact; SDIO—Secure Digital Input Output; SDK—Software ...

  7. Safety-critical system - Wikipedia

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    For example, while fail-safe electronic doors unlock during power failures, fail-secure ones will lock, keeping an area secure. Fail-Passive systems continue to operate in the event of a system failure. An example includes an aircraft autopilot. In the event of a failure, the aircraft would remain in a controllable state and allow the pilot to ...

  8. Why did I receive an email from MAILER-DAEMON? - AOL Help

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    The most common reason for a failed delivery is that the email address entered isn't valid. If the delivery failure message says the account doesn't exist double check the spelling of the address you entered. A single misplaced letter could cause a delivery failure.

  9. Thread safety - Wikipedia

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    In the C programming language, each thread has its own stack. However, a static variable is not kept on the stack; all threads share simultaneous access to it. If multiple threads overlap while running the same function, it is possible that a static variable might be changed by one thread while another is midway through checking it.