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Buffer overflows were discovered earlier than that, in 1972. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/and
by partycoder 10y ago
Buffer overflows were discovered earlier than that, in 1972.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf
However regular C programmers in the 70s and 80s were not defending themselves against arbitrary code execution from buffer overflows.
In addition, you can take C programming books from the time and see how functions like memcpy and strcpy were being used in unsafe ways.
That is my point. If you are going to reuse old programs, be aware that in earlier decades there wasn't as much awareness about security as there is today.