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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The power to examine binaries is not enough. You can be sued out of existence if you use anything you have learned by doing so. Most software that interfaces with undocumented components is created through analysis of "black box" event traces.