Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013)
by nl on Thursday November 27, 2014 @05:49PM
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That's so clearly false that it hardly deserves a response. I'm spending more time wondering if you are trolling that why you are wrong. But in case you aren't trolling:
1) A lot of "Python" security vulnerabilities are caused by "C"-problems (overflow errors, etc). [1] and [2] are a couple from this year.
2) You'd expect interpreting python to be more secure than C because the interpreter acts as a filter over input reducing the attack surface, meaning that potentially vulnerable paths are minimised are better tested than if an entire program was in C.
1) A lot of "Python" security vulnerabilities are caused by "C"-problems (overflow errors, etc). [1] and [2] are a couple from this year.
2) You'd expect interpreting python to be more secure than C because the interpreter acts as a filter over input reducing the attack surface, meaning that potentially vulnerable paths are minimised are better tested than if an entire program was in C.
[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-7185/
[2] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-1912/