Insecure Java Code Snippets

[ljknews at mac.com (ljknews)]

At 9:15 AM -0400 5/8/09, SC-L Reader Dave Aronson wrote:
> ljknews <ljknews at mac.com> wrote:
> > At 12:47 PM -0500 5/7/09, Brad Andrews wrote:
> > > Quoting ljknews <ljknews at mac.com>:
> > > > At 5:49 PM -0500 5/6/09, Brad Andrews wrote:
> > > > > Try a few of the PC-Lint bugs, if you ever wrote C/C++ code.
> > > > > They can be really hard to figure out,
> > > > And yet people keep choosing those programming languages.
> > > They offer quite a bit of power in exchange for the danger.
> > I would be interested in hearing what they can do that cannot
> > be done in Ada.
>
> It's rarely (I won't say never!) a question of what *can't* be done in
> language X or Y.  Usually, it's about what's *easier* to do in X or Y.
>  Sometimes the security tradeoff is worth taking the hard way, but
> sometimes the choice is to the point of being at all practical or not.

Well the _easiest_ development comes from not worrying about
security.

So tell me what you think is easier in C/C++.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen