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.

>>26
Educate programmers to understand more than just the code they write. It's all about the skill. Decompilers can assign appropriate names to variables based on how they're used - even IDA can do some of this already.

>>28
+1, this is actually one of the few advantages of platforms like Java and .NET - decompilation is easy, even in the presence of obfuscation. It's also another advantage of external libraries, since everything at the border has nice names even if the stuff inside doesn't. As evidence of this, the Android ecosystem has lots of app-modders.