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It's really dangerous to think that switching to another language will fix all your security problems. You can have safe memory, but that's about it. Serious ex
by TillE 12y ago
It's really dangerous to think that switching to another language will fix all your security problems. You can have safe memory, but that's about it. Serious exploits like "goto fail" can exist in any language.
- tormeh 12y agoNo. The state of the art has advanced well past Java. And besides the kinds of bugs that a good type system can fix, there's also bugs borne from usability problems like switch fall-throughs that are trivial to fix with a better syntax.
- Scramblejams 12y agoYou can have safe memory, but that's about it. That's not nothing. How many remotely exploitable bugs of massive severity have come from unsafe memory? Sure, there's much more work to do beyond memory safety, but there isn't much excuse for that one anymore.