Serious Network Function Vulnerability Found In Glibc

So long as we're writing in C, this kind of thing (buffer overflows in particular) will probably continue.

Yea we should write our system libraries in Go and Haskell. Maybe Coffeescript and run them all on node.js?
Get a clue.

The news feeds us Heartbleed, the academics advocate their "safe" languages, and the mindless masses rejoice in delight at the "security" of their new "user-friendly" locked-down consumption and surveillance devices.

Yet if it weren't for "unsafe" languages and exploits, jailbreaking, rooting, console homebrew, and other freedom-increasing activities would be essentially eliminated.

A world in which the security of systems is strongly proved is a dystopia of government and corporate control, one in which no one can ever have any freedom. An inescapable walled garden of mindless sheeple, kept consuming and happy in their ignorance.

Insecurity is freedom.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."