Exactly! And the so called security experts who are giving long lectures in the list about how any bug can result in a potential security flaw, they are forgetting that if a security flaw arises it arises because of the programmer and not Firefox.
If I use strcpy() to read user input into a buffer, I am at fault and not C compiler. On 9/30/07, Andrew Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Sep 07, at 19:25, wac wrote: > > On 9/28/07, Jimby Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How is this serious and is it related to security in any manner? If > >> not, please do not spam. :-( > > > > Many bugs are security related (I would say all). How it is security > > related? Think. What happens if your bank calculates something > > wrong and > > puts the lower in your account and the higher in another account? > > Yes It > > might be little but what about a little many > > times? That could be done with javascript too. Then... you are not > > safe > > anymore. > > If your bank is doing financial calculations using Javascript in a > standard web browser, you have bigger things to worry about than > roundoff errors. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
