From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea6b1f0ff507cd52,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: Netscape Software Flaw Date: 1996/05/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 155460476 sender: Ada programming language x-sender: rleif@mail.cts.com comments: To: owner-team-ada@ACM.ORG content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Date: 1996-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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