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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?
Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> writes: > I said exploits, not ways to get outside your proper address space and > crash the OS. Any sufficiently powerful language presents an opportunity > to do bad things to an ill prepared OS, but the answer isn't to make the > language less powerful. The Burroughs B6700 had trusted compilers. > Perhaps if we banned C and assembly, and made everyone use perl, we'd be > safe. :) The Perl parser itself (written in C ;) seems to have some issues (in __DIE__ handlers). 8-( -- Florian Weimer [email protected] University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898
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