But she was fully flesh and blood – flawed, over-stretched, nuanced – rather than just the hard-nosed lady cop of other similar dramas.
In a prescient paper in 2007, Charlie Miller, a former N.S.A. employee, described the profitable alternatives for hackers who may have otherwise turned their information about flaws over to the vendor free, or sold it for a few thousand dollars to programs like Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative, now run by Hewlett-Packard, which used them to enhance their security research.
Updated at 9pm ET: with a new, clearer headline to better reflect the flaws over the years, and added additional comment from Google.
Although the security researchers say the bugs allow remote code execution, the attacks are technically local — in that a would-be attacker can't exploit the flaws over the internet and would have to be within Bluetooth range.
I've also kept a keen eye on race relations (as I'm sure many do), and the systemic incarceration flaws over the last years, too, so thinking about the sort of a voice I might be able add to the conversation was key.
It does, however, highlight one of the book's minor flaws: an over-anxious cramming in of too many obscure statistics and calculations that should have been relegated to footnotes or an annex.Another is the author's slightly unfair attitude towards government.
Be it positive or negative, these results may be the effect of various methodology flaws that over-represent or under-represent the true effects of research, and should be taken into account while interpreting their results.
Failure occurs from flaw sites over the entire range of diminishing loads, up to a strength cutoff at >2 GPa associated with natural surface flaws.
But, their early suits had a design flaw: ordinary everyday over-the-counter rubber sewn together as a body suit has nodal points where the thickness under the arms and between the legs impedes movement and that in turn impedes the balancing act on a surfboard.
The vote-counting was flawed in over 40% of polling stations the observers visited.
