Because many are hired just to find and solve problems, they begin scanning everything for a flaw.
Give Microsoft credit: Its first fix for a security flaw in Internet Explorer that was actively exploited by hackers may have been complex and unworkable.
At issue is whether a generic drug maker can be held liable for a design flaw if it failed to withdraw an allegedly harmful medicine from the market.
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Facebook has been accused of ignoring a major privacy flaw for more than a year.
Oracle just scored points with the security community for rushing out an early patch for a critical security flaw in Java that was already being widely exploited by the cybercriminal underground.
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Many tech insiders have been bleating for years about a privacy flaw inherent in unencrypted browsing that lets hackers snoop on your Web activity.
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If this atmospheric account of publishers' quarrels and low-grade hackwork for a succession of vividly painted editorial scamps has a flaw, it is that Thackeray sanitizes its darker side for the benefit of his middle-class audience.
It is typically legal for someone to disclose a vulnerability, even when the disclosure could serve as a roadmap for criminals looking to exploit the flaw, said Ms. Granick.
Tan, chief executive, says the product tackles a key flaw of the Web: For all the talk of interactivity, it is primarily a one-way medium imposed on a mute audience.
For Labour's campaign flaw is a feeling that it has to rebut all charges instantly and an inability to ride a punch.
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It said a design flaw was responsible for the glitch.
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And blaming a 21-year-old journalist for those deaths is a cheap way of taking shots at some perceived flaw in Journalism 2.0.
Unfortunately, we soon realized a flaw in the control scheme for golf, in that there was no frame of reference or feedback for our motions.
Technology reviewers gave the game a thumbs-up, except for one potentially fatal flaw: Users can only play with one another by physically passing the phone back and forth between them.
Google has said that Ormandy was working independently of his employer, and Ormandy has defended himself on Twitter, writing that he only revealed the bug on the Full Disclosure mailing list after first attempting to negotiate a 60-day deadline for Microsoft to patch the flaw.
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And good for Nike for standing by him through what was in the end just a personal flaw.
Forcing the customer to pay for anything beyond a band-aid-style fix may mean the flaw will remain unpatched in many cases, warns Brocious.
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Lee has not been chosen for a Test match for 18 months, but it seems inconceivable that he will be overlooked for the first match at Lord's having now exposed a serious flaw in Strauss' technique.
The majority of security testers agree that the ethical thing to do when they discover a flaw in a computer programme is to give the manufacturer sufficient warning for it to prepare a software patch before going public with the finding.
If you haven't heard by now, the malware exploits a flaw in the Java Virtual Machine, which Oracle pushed a fix for back in February, but Apple didn't patch until a botnet consisting of as many as 650, 000 Macs was identified on March 4th.
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For some, the time has come to address the underlying design flaw of the euro: a single currency with many different states.
According to the hacker group, known as Goatse Security, a flaw in the Safari browser would allow cybercriminals to hijack iPads and use them for sending spam, stealing passwords or other mischief.
He has less scope to cut his pace and learn new tricks, and if Lawson is right and he has developed a technical flaw due to his injury, even his relentless accuracy may have gone for ever.
This is not so much a political as an aesthetic flaw: In the classic movies about Elizabeth I, for instance, you knew why you were watching the movie, why she was its subject, and how she changed history.
Expect Zuckerberg to tweak the feature to fix this design flaw, or find himself enrolled in many more clubs that are less than seemly for a CEO.
The settlement was emblematic of what critics say is a fundamental flaw in securities class actions: Lawyers negotiate settlements that result in large fees for themselves without pushing for adequate recoveries for their ostensible clients.
That security flaw was first publicly demonstrated by Cody Brocious, a 24-year-old software developer for Mozilla, at the Black Hat hacker conference in July.
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After Monday's fire, the big question for Boeing will be whether the issue is a manufacturing defect, which can be fixed relatively cheaply, or a design flaw, which might require expensive redesign and rework on existing planes, said Citi analyst Jason Gursky.
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