Re: How security holes happen

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On 03Mar2014 09:17, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> > 
> 
> Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern
>  languages with well designed exception handling.

What, and rely on someone else's low level C?
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Re: How security holes happen Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-04 09:19 +1100
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