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Re^4: Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again)by swampyankee (Parson) |
on Nov 30, 2005 at 23:14 UTC ( [id://513138]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
dragonchild is doing an excellent job, certainly more cogently than I will be able to do. (Thank, you dragonchild). There is a lot more to security than a language's (say) memory access model or potential race conditions. Many very serious examples of security problems have absolutely nothing to do with software: trusted users doing improper actions which are, nonetheless, well within their security profiles (sysadmins may have legitimate need to get into the bank's account database), careless disposal or loss of hardware with confidential information, users putting their impossible-to-memorize passwords on PostIt™s stuck on their monitors, et al. Restricting my comments to software: There is no way language selection can prevent something like
I don't see how E, CaPerl, etc could prevent this. emc Netlib
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