This week’s Quotes of the week is a software bug special. Yes no one has asked for a software bug special but we’re giving it to you anyway. We have news on the celebrity nude photos leaking, satellites going in the wrong direction and two social media giants announce bug hunting programme.
Don’t Think about it
“the best software bugs are the ones identified when the tester is supposed to be following a test script on a completely different feature” – David Greenless
David Greenless re-styles a common quote about programmers doing their best writing when not thinking about the programme in question and applies it to testing. Do you think this quote could apply to testers? It’s taken from his blog here.
Facebook offers a Bug Bounty
“Potentially in the future, if people were to go explore and find issues in the SDK or the hardware, that is definitely of interest to us” – Facebook security engineer Neal Poole
Facebook recently bought Oculus VR, the company designing a virtual reality system that is close to being marketed. Facebook payed $2 billion for the company in March. Now they are looking for people to help them test the communication tools in the software for the headsets and a offering rewards for it. Read More in the story here.
How does Nude Photos Got Hacked
“The leaked celebrity photos don’t originate from a single hack but instead from a collector who gradually added to his haul over months before suddenly deciding to post it online.”
James Cook gives a comprehensive overview of how those nude photos were hacked and a timeline of how the events unfolded. Read the full story here.
Twitter launches its own bug bounty programme
“We’re introducing a bug bounty program to thank researchers for responsibly-disclosed issues“
Twitter announced on Wednesday that is was developing a bug bounty programme for its platform. The company announced that it was running the programme through a third-party that being HackerOne. HackerOne is also used by Faceboo, Yahoo, CloudFlare, Automattic and other companies to hunt bugs.
Sending satellites into the wrong space
“The satellites are safely under control, despite having been released on a lower and elliptical orbit instead of the expected circular orbit on 22 August“
The European Space Agency (ESA) issues a statement regarding two recently launched rockets that had on board two satellites that were part of the Galileo navigation project. The two satellites entered the wrong orbit because of a software bug in the Russian-built system used to launch the satellites. The satellites seem to be unaffected thought. Read more here.
