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Too Cool For Secure Code
Jon Lasser, 2003-03-26

Until Unix and Linux programmers get over their macho love for low-level programming languages, the security holes will continue to flow freely.

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Too Cool For Secure Code 2003-03-27
Anonymous
The sort of bugs discussed in the article are not due to badly designed protocols, but rather shoddily implemented algorithms. The author's thesis is that many of these bugs arise because the tools of choice are, in fact, very weak.

If you code in C/C++ then

(a) you immerse yourself in a swam...

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