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Paul Vixie...security company? Is it April Fools?
by lawnchair_larry 13y ago
Paul Vixie...security company? Is it April Fools?
- cperciva 13y agoHey, he's got plenty of experience with vulnerabilities...
- tptacek 13y agoIt's a metrics/monitoring company, so I'm guessing sprintf not too much of a risk here. There's some incestuous ISC stuff happening with it, though.
- zurn 13y agoBack then, if you used something else than C, people would discard it as too slow. And almost nobody had learned the chainsaw juggling that is "writing safe C", now mastered by a few superheroes. Most people's creations just died by the wayside, unlike things like Bind and Sendmail and BSD Unix, which got incrementally patched up with varying success.