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Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Jan 29 17:14:47 2003

To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:14:23 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20030129131845.GE78231@overlord.e-gerbil.net> (Richard A
 Steenbergen's message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:18:45 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:

> (pointers ARE your friend god damnit :P)

Most C programmers have no clue about the C pointer semantics, I'm
afraid, so this powerful feature is often abused.

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