sic transit blix

2003-06-12 Thread Sunder
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woblix123329266jun12,0,3668966.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines June 12, 2003 London - Chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix, in an interview published yesterday, accused U.S. officials of mounting a smear campaign against him. SNIP

Re: An attack on paypal

2003-06-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:39 PM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: At 5:12 PM -0700 6/8/03, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: somebody (else) commented (in the thread) that anybody that currently (still) writes code resulting in buffer overflow exploit maybe should be thrown in jail. Not a very friendly bug-submission

Re: An attack on paypal

2003-06-12 Thread Bill Frantz
At 11:01 AM -0700 6/11/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 03:39 PM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: IMHO, the problem is that the C language is just too error prone to be used for most software. In Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation, Paul A. Karger and Roger R.