[SC-L] Insecure Java Code Snippets

[SC-L Reader Dave Aronson]

ljknews <ljknews at mac.com> wrote:
> At 12:47 PM -0500 5/7/09, Brad Andrews wrote:
>> Quoting ljknews <ljknews at mac.com>:
>>> At 5:49 PM -0500 5/6/09, Brad Andrews wrote:
>>>> Try a few of the PC-Lint bugs, if you ever wrote C/C++ code.
>>>> They can be really hard to figure out,
>>> And yet people keep choosing those programming languages.
>> They offer quite a bit of power in exchange for the danger.
> I would be interested in hearing what they can do that cannot
> be done in Ada.

It's rarely (I won't say never!) a question of what *can't* be done in
language X or Y.  Usually, it's about what's *easier* to do in X or Y.
 Sometimes the security tradeoff is worth taking the hard way, but
sometimes the choice is to the point of being at all practical or not.

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