[79674] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu May 8 03:02:13 1997
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 22:01:07 -0700
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
At 08:35 PM 5/7/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>Now, if we could only go back 30 years and give C a reasonable string
>model, we might be able to eliminate 50% of the known holes in Unix
>security.
Though shalt not use static size buffers for variable length data. [I don't
need to tell this to Bill and many others on this list. The rest better
chisel it in granite. :-]
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