It was thus said that the Great Noel Chiappa once stated: > > From: Liam Proven > > > There's the not-remotely-safe kinda-sorta C in a web browser, > > Javascript. > > Love the rant, which I mostly agree with (_especially_ that one). A couple of > comments: > > > So they still have C like holes and there are frequent patches and > > updates to try to make them able to retain some water for a short time, > > while the "cyber criminals" make hundreds of millions. > > It's not clear to me that a 'better language' is going to get rid of that, > because there will always be bugs (and the bigger the application, and the > more it gets changed, the more there will be).
"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction---from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." Proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 > The vibe I get from my > knowledge of security is that it takes a secure OS, running on hardware that > enforces security, to really fix the problem. (Google "Roger Schell".) We're getting there---on current Macs, not even root can delete all files anymore. You can still run unsigned programs, but you have to change a setting for that. For now. -spc (Be careful what you wish for)