Gary McGraw said:
Ed Felten and I found out early on (back in 1996) that you can use the
press as a lever to get companies to do the right thing. We learned
this when releasing the very first Java Security hole. We found out
that Sun paid much more attention once USA Today picked up the
On 10/28/06, David Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Much as I agree with many of the sentiments expressed in this discussion,
there's a certain air of unreality to it. While software has it's own
set of problems, it's not the first engineered artifact with security
implications in the history of the world. Bridges and buildings
regularly
