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Re: [ROS] The perils of security tools

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu May 22 12:33:54 2008

Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:29:40 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.com>
CC: Robust Open Source <open-source@csl.sri.com>, 
 Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <1210758989.32275.7.camel@vmx.home>

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 10:34 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>>> Ben: I'm idly curious. Was this exceptionally unusual case where use of
>>> uninitialized memory was valid properly commented in the code?
>> Well. Kinda. It didn't really explain why...
> 
> Then you got what you deserved.

_I_ didn't get anything. And _I_ didn't deserve anything: I did not 
write the code.

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