DieHard, the Software

Roland Piquepaille writes "No, it's not another movie sequel. DieHard is a piece of software which helps programs to run correctly and protects them from a range of security vulnerabilities. It has been developed by computer scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst — and Microsoft. DieHard prevents crashes and hacker attacks by focusing on memory. Our computers have thousands times more memory than 20 years ago. Still, programmers are privileging speed and efficiency over security, which leads to the famous "buffer overflows" which are exploited by hackers."

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Re:Correction

[Bill Dog]

They want things to be fast for some undefined quantity of fast.

No, we want things to be as fast as they can be.

From TFA:

These problems wouldn't arise if programmers were a little less focused on speed and efficiency, which is rarely a problem these days, and more attentive to security issues, says Berger.

He must be criticizing open source programmers only. Because in business, programmers aren't focussed on speed and efficiency, they're focussed on what their bosses are breathing down their necks about: getting it out the door. Berger sounds like a VM-language bigot (or paid ($30K from MS) .Net Runtime shill) who doesn't understand how most software is really made, and prefers to believe in caricatures of programmers.

Re:Vista already doing some of this

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, so lets bash MS for doing a good thing