"The delta cache was really a huge hack that just turned out rather successful. It's been hacked on further since (to do some half-way reasonable replacement with _another_ hack by adding an LRU on top of it), but it really is very hacky indeed."
Perhaps we can avoid many security issues by having a secure basis.
A smart memory handling system and by using technologies such as address space randomization, automatic tests, stack-smashing protection, etc.
Or by using languages that do safe allocations, etc.
I wonder if someone's beta testing a troll/spam bot that goes off of keywords ("hack" in this case) in an attempt to be on topic. If so, then I imagine it'll show up with links in the blather at some point.
Perhaps
Perhaps we can avoid many security issues by having a secure basis.
A smart memory handling system and by using technologies such as address space randomization, automatic tests, stack-smashing protection, etc.
Or by using languages that do safe allocations, etc.
Bit of a non sequitur,
Bit of a non sequitur, security was not mentioned once I don't think.
Hmmmm
I wonder if someone's beta testing a troll/spam bot that goes off of keywords ("hack" in this case) in an attempt to be on topic. If so, then I imagine it'll show up with links in the blather at some point.
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