Crispin,
I think you may have over spoken below:
Seeking perfect correctness as an approach to security is a fool's
errand. Security is designing systems that can tolerate imperfect software.
I could go along with achieving perfect correctness as an approach to
security is a fool's belief but
Gadi Evron wrote:
For argument sake, let's assume there are 100.
How about campaigning for a secure coding chapter to be added to these
semester, erm, world-wide?
Nothing is ever easy, but we have to start somewhere. I don't see why this
is a bad idea. Yes, it takes time. Yes, it will have
Crispin Cowan wrote:
For me, the enemy in the room is C++. It gives you the safety of C with the
performance of SmallTalk. There is no excuse at all to be writing anything in
C++ yet vastly too many applications are written in C++ anyway. Instead of
trying to coax developers to switch from C++
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Crispin Cowan wrote:
Gadi Evron wrote:
So, dump C, Use SML, What secure coding classes are you doing? and
we are already doing it!! are the responses I got when I started this
thread.
What did you expect from whining about the generally poor quality of
software?
