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Re: libsafe and Debian installation



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:03:00PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> why are you so anti libsafe? 

Because it's the wrong to increase security. You should increase
security by learning how to code, not by using a library to provide
workarounds for your mistakes. If you provide such a library,
people get lazy and just think "libsafe will catch it". We should fix
buffer overflows, not provide workarounds for it.

Jeroen Dekkers 
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