Questions tagged [trust]
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My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
Working as a freelancer, I often see strange requests from my customers, some of which can negatively affect my daily work¹, and others trying to set some sort of control. I usually encounter those things during preliminary negotiations, so it's…
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trust factor in code review
How much should a reviewer trust the coder who submits the code for review?
I always have that dilemma of whether I should go test of the changes proposed or should I trust the submitter that he would be knowing what he is doing? Mainly because at…
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How do you keep your customers informed about the exact time you spent on their projects?
In my answer of the question about what are the important points to consider when starting your own company, I mentioned the fact that when the customers pay per hour of work, there must be a way for them to be sure that you don't make them pay for…
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Service to prove authorship with trusted timestamp
This question is related with copyrights. The copyright is granted by default to the author of some code, however this requires to prove that some person is the "first" author of some piece of code. Consider the following example:
Andy writes some…
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Which approach can be used to verify that information has not been manipulated after it has been recorded?
I am looking for an approach to verify that some information has not been modified after a certain point in time.
Let's assume a data provider records a data set at time X and provides it to a data consumer at time X+10. How could an approach look…
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Deferred Open Source licensing
Are there established models for releasing an initially proprietary piece of software under FLOSS conditions after a defined period or a certain point of time? The main problem here is that all parties involved must be able to trust that the Open…
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Ken thompson's compiler hack
I have gone through ken thompson's compiler hack paper, can't we just go through the complier's source code and check for any backdoor, what was the article's point?
https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
Can we…
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