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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. Feeble minded weaklings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't get me wrong, I love the president. But a recent interview with Irish television leaves me confused. Here are two quotes:

    "People join terrorist organizations because there's no hope and there's no chance to raise their families in a peaceful world where there is not freedom ... so the idea is to promote freedom and at the same time protect our security.

    "These people are willing to kill innocent people. They're willing to slaughter innocent people to stop the advance of freedom," Bush said.

    So which is it? Do people join terrorist organizations because there is not freedom or to stop the advance of freedom?

    Please advise. Thx.

    1. Re:Feeble minded weaklings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Bush is no genius, but even a moron can figure out the point of the two statements you have chosen.

      People join terrorist organizations because there's no hope

      - Makes sense to me. The recruits and grunts don't have much opportunity, i.e. their choices suck donkey dick. So they are easily pulled into "freedom fighter" type movements. Their appeal is similar to that of gangs.

      They're willing to slaughter innocent people to stop the advance of freedom

      - Yep. The leaders of these groups will stop at nothing to hold on to their power. Freedom would just give their recruits alternatives, hence the need to quash it.

      I don't think I'll be voting for Bush, but it pains me to vote for Kerry because I know that ignorant-as-fuck pukes like you will be voting for him. Do you fuckwits have any critical thinking skills?

    2. Re:Feeble minded weaklings by stanmann · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      I love the president.
      That's your problem. Here's some advice: when Bush starts talking about freedom, stop listening; that's not why we're there. That's just the excuse that is being given.
      That's your problem. Here's some advice: when your history book starts talking about freeing the slaves, stop listening; that's not why the civil war was fought. That's just the excuse that is being given.

      Nobody ever gives all the reasons for fighting a war, just the popular ones. Deal with it! Just because an impact is secondary or peripheral, doesn't mean it isn't part of the justification.

      THere are lots of reasons why we are in Iraq, freedom is one of them, national security is another, WMDs are part of that, So is the fact that it was time to finish a 15 year war, and Bush had the political capital to spend getting it done. 12 years ago his father used up his political capital freeing kuwait and had none left to finish the job.

      Aprove or not, This was the best time to finish the job.
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      Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
    3. Re:Feeble minded weaklings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Although I can't say I am smitten with President Bush, Kerry scares the shit out of me. I couldn't vote for that man if he held the last ounce of my blood in his hand..

  2. ninth post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No sir, this is the CHECK in desk.

  3. YOU SPELLED RETARDED WRONG! by IshanCaspian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, that's priceless. Here you are complaining about how retarded developers are, and you spelled retarded wrong. "retraded" my ass.

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    But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
  4. er, nevermind. I r teh ratrad. by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought the misspelling was intentional, but rereading the post I think, uh, it wasn't.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  5. OT: Sig Comment by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ``10 out of 10 Terrorists agree - Anybody but Bush in 2004''

    Also read this.

    I don't agree with your sig though - without an enemy they actually have a good reason to fight, terrorists would lose a lot of the support they are getting. They are only so powerful, because many agree with their cause.

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  6. Re:loose? by bay43270 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Back before dictionaries you could spell words how you liked, and that was how spelling evolved. Nowadays, you spell like the rest of us, or people will think - rightly or wrongly - that you're an idiot.

    You're right. People must think I'm an idiot. That's why the post was rated '+5 Insightful'. Thanks for the stunningly ironic post about how to not look like an idiot.