Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>> Today's slashdot points out yet another exploit in Linux.
> 
> I believe the link is actually
> <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/14/118209&mode=flat&tid=106&tid=126&tid=128&tid=185&tid=190>. 
> 
>> We like to deride Windows, but Linux, *NIX in general all suffer from
>> the same problem. Some of these are no doubt due to design issues
>> (which Ada may or may not help with). But surely, one has to wonder/hope
>> if/that some other fundamental change (language) can offer an
>> improvement. I think many are simply saying that they believe it
>> to be so.
> 
> Which illustrates that you did not actually bother to read about
> what the problem is. 

You are correct: I skimmed it, due to a lack of time. You are
also correct, if it reads as you say, it is a poor example.

My real point is however, that it wouldn't be hard to find
other examples of loopholes, that continually need to be
closed. If the system is so secure, why are people so
afraid of giving out shell accounts to their machines?

The reality is that these systems are not very secure.

Every network service exposed to the general public on the
wild wooly world is also very much suceptable to
exploits. Surely it is possible to do better
than we are doing today?

I see that _finally_ that AMD and Intel are coming out with
half measures to help stem the tide with buffer overflows,
with their new 64 bit processor cores. I hope that they
continue to work on hardware measures that help.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg