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.

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"Or you could simply stop using any form of computer." Radical Stallmanism is not much better than that.

If only RMS was clever enough to realise that advancing decompiler technology would be able to "force open" the source of any program, against all legal restrictions, and pushed for development of RE with the FSF, maybe we'd be living in a much freer world now...