> BTW, it's not necessary a flaw in wintel; RPC is common to all modern > operating systems. Rather, than placing the blame on a company, Microsoft in > this case, there needs to be more effort in teaching programmers how to > avoid these things. I am a C++ programmer, and I know how difficult it can > be to avoid buffer overflows if you are not paying attention to the code you > are writing.
A good point Robert, but let's be honest here. If M$ took a bit of time with their coding and debugging before release 99% of their problems wouldn't exist. And how many RPC vulnerabilities do we see on Mac/Linux platforms? Cheers for the URL... MOU ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
