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 Translation for 'flaw' from English to French
NOUN   a flaw | flaws
VERB   to flaw | flawed | flawed
flawing | flaws
SYNO defect | fault | flaw | ...
faille {f} [lacune, faiblesse]flaw
5
défaut {m}flaw
2
anat.psych.
tare {f}
flaw
tech.
paille {f} [point faible]
flaw
faille {f} de sécuritésecurity flaw
défaut {m} structurelstructural flaw
erreur {f} de raisonnementflaw in one's logic
erreur {f} de raisonnementflaw in one's reasoning
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Usage Examples English
  • In August 2011, an IBM researcher, Jay Radcliffe, demonstrated a security flaw in insulin pumps.
  • The Rose, which is a symbol of love and beauty, puts forth a flaw or a thorn.
  • bridges of similar construction after identifying a possible design flaw related to large steel sheets called gusset plates, which connect girders in the truss structure.
  • This is a specific sort of flaw, also known as "Hamartia", which is possessed by Aristotelian tragic heros.
  • This proper usually requires a sample or a detailed explanation to prove the flaw in the material, unless the flaw was clear enough for the release to be nuked at releasing time.

  • On December 16, 2008, a security flaw was found in Internet Explorer 7 which can be exploited so that crackers can steal users' passwords.
  • Hyde goes on to elucidate interpretive pitfalls of treating "hamartia" as tragic flaw by tracing the tragic flaw argument through several examples from well-known tragedies including "Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex".
  • Benjamin Delpy discovered a flaw in Microsoft Windows that holds both an encrypted copy of a password and a key that can be used to decipher it in memory at the same time.
  • The agreement requires legal enforcement of digital rights management systems, however an Australian legislative committee has issued a report stating that this portion of the treaty has a "significant flaw": while the agreement provides permitted exceptions allowing the use of copyright access circumvention devices, it also disallows access to the tools used for such circumvention.
  • To comply with the flaw acceptance criteria developed during ECA, non-destructive examination must be utilized.

  • VENOM (short for Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation) is a computer security flaw that was discovered in 2015 by Jason Geffner, then a security researcher at CrowdStrike.
  • In December 2019, WhatsApp confirmed a security flaw that would allow hackers to use a malicious GIF image file to gain access to the recipient's data.
  • In April 2018, a cryptographic flaw was found in the Zerocoin protocol which allowed attackers to steal, destroy, and create Zcoins.
  • 0, but carefully keeping that knowledge away from the malware developer so that they could not fix the flaw.
  • On March 9, 2015, Apple released security updates for both iOS 8 and OS X operating systems which fixed this flaw.

  • Hurricane Ella prompted a scare for engineers secretly working to remedy a structural flaw in the Citigroup Center in New York City, as the high winds could have caused the building to collapse.
  • The Wi-Fi Alliance standardized these methods as Wi-Fi Protected Setup; however, the PIN feature as widely implemented introduced a major new security flaw.
  • The Poisson process can be used to measure the rates at which different people find security flaws between open and closed source software.
  • In 2015, ADAC (a German motoring association) discovered security flaws in the ConnectedDrive system which potentially allowed attackers to remotely unlock the vehicle.
  • Fig II. A: flaw; B and C: notches cut to hold the stone in a setting; D: flaw created by fracture at E; F: fracture created by a blow; G: unpolished cleavage plane; H: basal cleavage plane.

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