On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ross Walker wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Ross Walker rswwalker@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?
On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Always Learning wrote:
*snip*
Programmes that abort because of bad data are defective programmes and need rectification. No good programmer ever accepts that other people's data will always be valid.
+1
I might add that no good programmer should accept ANY data as valid without verification. Theirs, ours, we're all human and make errors.
-Ross
I guess that can be applied to stack overflow attacks as well? ie a decently written program should take such vulnerabilities into account, and make provision to deal with them in a clean way?
Keith
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