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Discussion on: Is Uncle Bob serious?

 
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mr-bandit

Citibank just lost $900 million because of errors in processing an interest payment.
Close enough for mission critical software to me.

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Nina Rallies

Safety critical software have multiple layers of verification/ validation. Bank systems are not safety critical; they are security critical.
In safety critical systems, a failure can harm people ( railways, aerospace, medical devices)
A failure in security critical systems wouldn’t result in harm but rather loss/ exposure of information and assets.
The requirements to pass safety critical software standards and showing compliance with SIL ( I assume they are talking SIL4) is quite extensive.
I don’t think more professionalism is what they are lacking here.