From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@MAIL.CTS.COM>
Subject: Netscape Software Flaw
Date: 1996/05/18
Date: 1996-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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To: Ada Community
From: Bob Leif,
Ada_Med
Subject: Netscape Software Flaw
Date: 18 May, 1996
The Business Day Section of the Saturday, May 18, 1996 New York Times has an
article, "New Netscape Software Flaw is Discovered", pages 17 and 29. The
author is John Markoff. "Thomas Cargill an independent software consultant
working with the Princeton group, discovered a problem in the way Netscape
has used the Java language in its Navigator program."
Obvious question, would the use of Ada diminish the probabilities of this
type of problem and increase the security of Internet communication? If so,
someone should communicate this to both John Markoff and Thomas Cargill. I
would suspect that Ada's strong typing and runtime checking would help in
the detection of misbehaving programs.
Robert C. Leif, Ph.D., PMIAC,
Vice President & Research Director
Ada_Med, A Division of Newport Instruments
5648 Toyon Road
San Diego, CA 92115-1022
Tel. & Fax (619) 582-0437
e-mail rleif@mail.cts.com
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