Software Transparency and Purity.

The author presents information on computer software programs that contain functions that were designed to be hidden from software consumers. Early examples of this practice came in the form of Trojan horses and Easter eggs, but it has become more common. Software transparency is when all the functi...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 104 - 105
Main Author:	Meunier, Pascal
Format:	Editorial
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Feb2008
Subjects:	Computer software quality control Plug-ins (Computer programs) Software engineering Corruption
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