From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!skymaster!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and malicious software Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:33:02 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <07utic.u31.ln@skymaster> References: <414B6E62.9070402@acm.org> <0hL2d.762$QB1.501@trndny02> <414E2306.6030404@acm.org> <8%q3d.1820$kn2.1441@trndny07> <414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org> <97de285c.0409211234.596b663a@posting.google.com> <97de285c.0409212220.4fba573f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: s5.feed.news.oleane.net 1095926763 23287 195.25.228.57 (23 Sep 2004 08:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:06:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3992 Date: 2004-09-23T09:33:02+02:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG a =E9crit : > That should probably be tempered with "not as susceptable" to buffer > overflows. If there was poor design and/or testing, then a production > mode program that is compiled with the checks "off", is still > vulnerable, although admitedly, much less likely. Of course. You can write badly in Ada. But the difference is, you have=20 to ask for it! --=20 --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr