Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 11th Aug 2008 16:13 UTC, submitted by gonzo
Ars Technica has analyzed recently publicized Vista's security flaws. "Unfortunate, yes, but not as was reported in the immediate aftermath of the presentation evidence that Vista's security is useless, nor does this work constitute a major security issue. And it's not game over, either. Sensationalism sells, and there's no news like bad news, but sometimes particularly when covering security issues, it would be nice to see accuracy and level-headedness instead. ... Furthermore, these attacks are specifically on the buffer overflow protections; they do not circumvent the IE Protected Mode sandbox, nor Vista's (in)famous UAC restrictions."
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RE[2]: .Net is the answer?
by abraxas on Fri 15th Aug 2008 09:36
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Yeah that irked me too, there are plenty of ways to write good, pretty safe, pointer burdened code in C and C++, utilising dynamic memory allocation, without incurring the overheads of garbage collection or excessive automatic compiler-inserted checks...
The 'safety' of the language really isn't even one of the main appeals of C# or .NET.
Edited 2008-08-12 02:07 UTC