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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. Where in the world is my ActiveX? by hummassa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ummm gosh, the only ActiveX applets I ever saw was right after it was released. Heh, I often say Java is dead on the web (though I know it isn't completely) but now ActiveX is entirely dead except for like the applet on Windows Update :-P

    You are a Holy Person, sir/madam.

    Go find some pr0n and you'll see a lot of activeX thingies trying to install. Lucky me I use Moz.

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  2. Re:Uhh.. by fatphil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure I'm not the only one who's learnt that:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in /var/www/acmqueue.com/htdocs/db/db.php on line 88

    is indicative of bad programming. Thanks ACM Queue for an enlightening 2-line article!

    FP.

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