Re: [BLACKBOX] severe security hole in BB

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:37:17 -0500

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At 04:36 PM 6/16/2008, Doug Danforth wrote:
>Josef,
>Good point.
>
>At a higher level,
>can one in any sense specify the "security" of the
>underlying module based system?
>
>I, for one, do not like to worry about such issues but
>when providing software to clients what does one say
>when asked about the security of the BlackBox environment?
>
>-Doug Danforth

        I think we can completely rule out the infamous buffer overrun, or any other kind of memory violation. That alone must eliminate at least 90% of problems. As for the rest, I suppose it depends on what you do. And by the way, 90% of the statistics I make up are right on the mark.

Rex Couture

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