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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by jwiley on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:19AM (#9953642)
No idea or visibility into Steam's backend. Hope to god they are not using C for this very reason. Great for games, terrible for SAS
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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by ars on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:35AM (#9953700)
If you wrote it like that this bug would happen in every language. There is nothing in there that is worse because of C.
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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by rizzin on Monday July 27, 2015 @04:09AM (#9953972)
Yeah, but in other (more high-level) languages you simply wouldn't compare strings byte by byte.
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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by delroth on Monday July 27, 2015 @04:48AM (#9954087)
Neither would you do it in C.
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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by XMPPwocky on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:46AM (#9953736)
Their webapp is (AFAIK) all PHP; not sure what the backend looks like.
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