Re: libsafe and Debian installation
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:47:56AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> If you really believe that you're incapable of making mistakes just
> because you know something about the (im)proper use of strcpy(), then
> you're an accident waiting to happen.
He did mention higher-level languages. In almost all of the ALGOL, LISP,
and "scripting" family languages, buffer overflows in your code are
impossible, so long as you don't turn off bounds checking and don't
interface with unsafe languages.
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