On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ross Walker wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem? > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------