Be safe and secure in bad neighbourhood that might look okay on the surface
Education must teach how to defend one’s (अंतः करण चतुष्टट्य)Antahkaran Chatustaya and (पुरिआष्टक)PuriAstaka from attack by subjects of the senses.
This article is a lesson in how to read a code.
Code is expression of intent
A code is meant to convey meaning from source to destination and back for mutual consensus among a set of transacting parties over a course of time. The events that occurred could be recorded for future reference or could be discarded for keeping every new course of time fresh from historical understanding of the course of events that occurred earlier in an earlier course. A code has Concepts and Relationships among the Concepts. A code has provision for information sharing on demand by the users or sometimes as a solicitation in the public premises by the provider. A code has provision for bringing people of diverse expertise area to one table at one time to reach a validated decision.
People who understand a code can participate in a discussion and the people who can’t understand the code don’t. People who understand the code don’t understand it completely because of the seer magnitude of it for one person’s capacity due to practical limitations of time and energy. Additionally, not every code is meant to be managed by everyone in an organisation because of organisational boundaries. Code is an expression of intent in terms of information.
Buyer of the Code
Some organisations Develop the Code. Some other organisations Operate the Code and some organisations buy the Code to resell with modification to enhance currently paid-for features.
Applications of a code are the objects of interest to a party. A party is willing to pay for a service, sometimes very complex and difficult to use ( impossible to use without due course of training).
Learning to Code or Learning to Program?
Complexity is learnt with necessary hard work
When you don’t learn something and hope to learn it along the way, it’s usually a simple thing like riding a bicycle. Life is still at stake but in comparison to learning to fly an Air-plane much less is at stake. Therefore the process is designed to be harder than usual for endurance training for high stake responsibilities.
Why does it need to be Hard?
The responsibility is in terms of ability in effectively mitigating the risk while on Land, Water or Air. This might mean the unseen part of an ice-berg in an Ocean, in terms of analogy. A lack of visibility for naked eyes in while flying an airplane or a Social trap to hijack the consciousness in a seemingly safe friend-circle in terms of Land.
A complex set of objectives are constructed over due course of time and become asset for an organisation. Code that can be as valuable as gold for a company might be sitting idle in another company’s ignored folders. Some code might be a very insignificant part of a much larger puzzle and yet without that code the larger function can’t happen reliably.
Audits and Checks
For delivering services and goods that must be handled cautiously and judiciously we must assign power to agencies to maintain peace in the society. Without validation and verification the power would be misused by threat agents.
Reliability and Security
Unauthorised changes to a protocol can bring corruption to data or services. This might lead to insurmountable amount of emotional, psychological, physical loss in short and long term. For a system to work reliably and securily the Legislative and Executive control of the system must be Reliable and Secure from unauthorised change.
Where is the Code?
If there’s a need for the code, then it exists or will exist soon. This is one of the principles that the wise know and the foolish deny.
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