Re: Back to Being a Luddite (Oh Well)
The fact that viruses arrive in your e-mail doesn't mean that they would have infected you. Almost all such e-mail is so obviously spam that you're not going to open the files attached to it anyhow.
There should never have been any such thing as a buffer overrun. I blame the C and C++ programming languages, with their lack of internal checking, for almost all the unreliability and security vulnerability of modern software. Computers are 1000 times as fast as the first PCs, and we still can't afford to spend 1% of our precious CPU time bounds-checking the arrays. It isn't macho.
I know C and C++ can be used responsibly. My point is that C and C++ led to a culture developing in which programmers insist on not "wasting" a single CPU cycle on error-checking or security. (I call it "programming without a helmet.") As a result, we are having to add security in the form of additional software.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by mc in General Telecommunications Forum
