risk-analysis – Tarik Billa

Is google-services.json safe from hackers?

August 16, 2023 by Tarik

The way that the Google plugin is set up, it will be really hard for you to hide the content of the google-services.json file. The only viable way would be to re-implement yourself what the plugin already does for you, which I wouldn’t recommend. When using the plugin the way Google intends you to, it … Read more

Cosmic Rays: what is the probability they will affect a program?

September 11, 2022 by Tarik

From Wikipedia: Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.[15] This means a probability of 3.7 × 10-9 per byte per month, or 1.4 × 10-15 per byte per second. If your program runs for 1 minute and occupies 20 MB … Read more