Re: [SC-L] The Importance of Type Safety

2009-03-24 Thread Jeremy Epstein
This is kind of a funny discussion, to those of us over a certain age. When I was a young-un :-), the argument was that you couldn't write real software in a high level language like C because it was too inefficient compared to assembly language, and you lost flexibility since you didn't have

Re: [SC-L] BSIMM: Confessions of a Software SecurityAlchemist(informIT)

2009-03-24 Thread Andy Steingruebl
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Gary McGraw g...@cigital.com wrote: hi guys, I think there is a bit of confusion here WRT root problems. In C, the main problem is not simply strings and string representation, but rather that the sea of bits can be recast to represent most anything. The