I still don't understand, after about 10 years of buffer overflow problems, how software developers keep writing crappy code like this. It's one thing to cut corner on application software here and there, but OS's and network protocol handlers!?!? I mean -- buffer overflows! What a stupid error to make. It didn't take me more than hearing 2 or 3 security breaches related to this kind of issue before I scrutinized my own code more carefully for such things. It's pretty sad that this problem still occurs.
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I still don't understand, after about 10 years of buffer overflow problems, how software developers keep writing crappy code like this. It's one thing to cut corner on application software here and there, but OS's and network protocol handlers!?!? I mean -- buffer overflows! What a stupid error to make. It didn't take me more than hearing 2 or 3 security breaches related to this kind of issue before I scrutinized my own code more carefully for such things. It's pretty sad that this problem still occurs.