Posts tagged software

Just a few characters

“The Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website narendramodi.in was hacked early on Thursday morning with hackers attempting to solicit cryptocurrency from his followers.” – The Hindu today (Sep3, 2020) Jeez!, a leader’s credentials compromised? (no pun intended!). In the old days, we valued one’s character, now we value the ‘characters’ of digital identity! Funny that these ‘characters’ can be used to compromise one’s character. Huh, technology.

Litigation

In a consumer court hearing… The petitioner said “Milord, I am running around in circles to get them to fix the bug, but to no avail” The respondent said “Milord, I have been fair and square when I told him to the point, that it is a new feature” Now they called in the tester as a witness who poetically said: Twas a bug that I found “Ain’t so big”, they said and they added…..

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News report on testing

A creative take on how news about a software system crash would be in reported today! White assaults Black, system crashes Testland/July 5, 2017, T Ashok In Gray’s SaasFactory at Testland, during the nightly build, Miss Black was brutally assaulted by an intruder. The intruder identified as Mr White, after injecting a bug was covering up his paths on his way out when Black blocked his path and raised an exception. White in retaliation, took…

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