Re: newbie inquiry

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3D096346.F92BEF64@san.rr.com>...
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> > Actually, though there is little room for doubt on this one. You
> > *cannot* get buffer overflow exploits in Ada without disabling
> > constraint checking (or using Unchecked programming).
> 
> Nowadays, I think it's a minority of security breaches that take advantage
> of buffer overflows. Inappropriate scripting certainly wouldn't be solved
> solely with Ada.

Scripting is more of a virus issue than a security one. I suppose
someone could create themsevles a trojan to give themselves access to
a system, but that requires a culpable host to trick into running the
trojan for you. Thus its a much better technique for some kind of
scattershot mass attack (like viruses) than for targeting a specific
system. I believe crackers and "script-kiddies" still use buffer
overflow exploits as their stock and trade.


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