[60085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Jul 31 14:10:37 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@kotovnik.com>, "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:09:34 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> What we need is a new programming paradigm, capable of actually producing
> secure (and, yes, reliable) software. C and its progeny (and "program
> now, test never" lifestyle) must go. I'm afraid it'll take laws which
> would actually make software makers to pay for bugs and security
> vulnerabilities in shipped code to make such paradigm shift a reality.
>
Blaming the tools for the mistakes programmers make is like saying "guns kill people"
when the truth is that people kill people with guns.
We´ve code running, where the core parts are C and has a track record better
than the "utopian" five nines so many people mistakenly look for.
However, since improvements are always welcome, please recommend tools which
would allow us to progress "above and beyond" C and it´s deficencies.
Pete
