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Falling Apart at the Seams
Kathleen Ellis and Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus 2000-09-04

Last month's Brown Orifice program opened a backdoor to an insecure future. Can open source save the day?

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User: friend or enemy? 2000-09-05
Pavel Roskin
It's a good article, but an important point is missing.

Different modules are developped in different assumptions about the user.

Most programmers consider users as friends, i.e. they don't expect them to feed garbage to the program.

However, modules written in such assumptions (e.g. the modified...

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