obj-c vs. java for secure system development
obj-c vs. java for secure system development
- Subject: obj-c vs. java for secure system development
- From: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:28:39 -0700
Something I've been wondering about Cocoa is: How secure is it? I was
just reminded of this thought when seeing this essay posted on another
list
http://michael.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/
One doesn't generally hear about buffer overruns in Cocoa apps. But
maybe that's because there are few cocoa apps out there?
Java has the whole bytecode-verification thing going for it, and
although I think it does actually have pointers (handles?) it has no
pointer arithmetic and no direct memory access like C does.
Seems to me Objective-C could be just as bad as C code except the ObjC
frameworks have had many years of scrutiny to see all the dangerous
mistakes.
Alex Rice <email@hidden>
Mindlube Software
http://mindlube.com/
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