Re: WTF? How can this work?
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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