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Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming

Posted by simoniker on from the all-your-fault dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article that blames security flaws on poor programming, rather than any inherent problems with particular languages. From the article: 'Remember Ada? ... we tried getting everyone to switch to a 'sandboxed' environment with Java in the late 1990s... Java worked so well, Microsoft responded with ActiveX, which bypasses security entirely by making it easy to blame the user for authorizing bad code to execute.'"

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  1. Re:The human factor by feed_those_kitties · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh you poor thing... A six-digit salary? How do you survive?
    Try being a programmer making half what he was two years ago, (well under six-digits, for sure!) a mortgage and that same workload.