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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: What to Do?
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101011632350.9452-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 9:08:47 -0800, Ehud Lamm wrote
> > (in message <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il>):
> > > hobbyists, the "real world" situation will improve too. (I still
> > > haven't found the time to write "Why should Hackers Love Ada?" If
> > > anyone wnats to write it, feel free...)
>
> I'm glad "hacker" is not being used in a pejorative sense!

If it were, it should be changed to "Hate Ada". Perhaps something like
that would be a good chapter name ("Why Crackers Fear Ada"). After all,
Ada renders buffer overflow exploits unproductive (except perhaps as a
denial-of-service attack). Cult of the Dead Cow has an entire website
devoted to finding and exploiting buffer overflows.

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