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- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:49:15 +0900
- From: Botond Botyanszki <9915104t@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] The Peon's Guide to Secure System Development
- References: <20021117054344.GA19252@example.com> <20021118143627.GA28345@example.com>
- Organization: Kobe University, Japan
Josh Glover wrote: > He makes some great points, but one problem I have with his urging people to > use "high-level languages" (to me, C[++] is a high-level language, but he > means Python, Java, et al.) is that a bug in one of those languages might > allow all systems written in that language to be compromised. Just as bugs in > [g]libc and GCC scare the shit out of us now, so will Python / Java bugs if > *everyone* takes this guy's advise. I think the guy meant that with high-level languages like Java you can't write buggy code (buffer overflows, etc). So it's not a bug in the language itself, rather a feature that allows buggy software to be written. -- B0Ti.
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- [tlug] The Peon's Guide to Secure System Development
- From: A. Sajjad Zaidi
- Re: [tlug] The Peon's Guide to Secure System Development
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