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From: "Mike Smith" <smithmc@michaelsmithHATESSPAM.org>
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> I found a mirror which folks like me behind facist firewalls may have an
easier
> time accessing.
http://www.supportamerica.com/win_buff/win_buff_overflow.html .
> If you don't understand the buffer overflow problem (which apparently, at
least
> Mike doesn't)

Yes, I do.  However, what I also understand is that buffer overflow problems
are a *bug*, not a "feature", and they are a bug in the *application code*,
not the language.  Only improperly written C code can contain buffer
overflow problems, and there is absolutely *no* excuse for finding them in
C++ code, because the STL can be used to eliminate them completely.

--
Mike Smith