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Re: WTF? How can this work?
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Re: WTF? How can this work?


  • Subject: Re: WTF? How can this work?
  • From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:36:32 -0500

On Monday, August 20, 2001, at 08:21 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:

Perhaps, but the fact is that a vast number of security problems in todays computers are due to the fact that C doesn't do bounds-checking of arrays or strings.

I'd phrase that more properly as most internet security problems are due to the fact that Microsoft doesn't do bounds checking of arrays or strings...
I don't think that they believe it would be cost effective to do bounds checking. 8-)

Brian

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