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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:Uhh.. by gfody · · Score: 0, Troll

    insightful? you know microsoft developed os/2 for ibm, about the same time they were making windows actually.

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    bite my glorious golden ass.
  2. Java Smava by DerFeuervogel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lets see you write a graphics intensive 3D package that needs to render
    _allot_ of polygons in real time in Java. Something like a 3D Data viewer in
    OpenGL. Everybody moving to the "safe" languages won't work.