Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET 687
renai42 writes "Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET one of the 'biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made.' Gosling further commented that by including the two languages into Microsoft's software development platform, the company 'has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through.'" Note that this isn't a particular vulnerability, just a system of typing that makes it easy to introduce vulnerabilities, which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.
Phew! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh. Never mind!
Woah (Score:5, Funny)
A truck, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Like, say, a truck about the size of Sun's Java runtime environment.
Re:Advertisement? (Score:1, Funny)
Well, Visual Basic won't kill people, but it surely can drive them insane!
> Does that mean the trigger should only work after inserting a valid and current hunting license?
You usually need a license to instal VB.NET
Homeowners!! Beware! (Score:5, Funny)
--The Elmer's Glue Foundation for Strength and Security
Gosling vs. Kernighan Cage Match!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Phew! (Score:2, Funny)
C and C++ are necessary for systems programming. Java, C#, and VB (.net version) are only useful for applications programming since they run behind a virtual machine.
Oh, by the way, assembly language is a necessary evil as well. While some microprocessors may be developed that can directly read the bytecode, they still won't have a virtual machine running (just a real one).
I believe Gosling is wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Gosling is dead wrong. I believe that Microsoft will soon prove they are capable of even bigger and more offensive security mistakes.
Also, the choice to actually use .NET is at least as big of a security error.
Re:Phew! (Score:3, Funny)
What Visual Studio
LK
lost my faith (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Advertisement? (Score:3, Funny)
Me: "Oh, that would be, umm, James Gosling."
He: "No, that's not the name. It was a lady. Let me check
Me "Who?"
A web search revealed that Ms. Centoni's position was "Director of Java Marketing." Out of the mouths of babes come all wise sayings.
Re:Phew! (Score:3, Funny)
Give a man a gun, and he can kill many people with it.
Give that same man a pencil and... eh, not so much.
Give a crook a hammer, and he'll break *Windows* (Score:1, Funny)
pots and kettles, you know... (Score:4, Funny)
oh. nevermind.
Re:Phew! (Score:3, Funny)
Just imagine how secure the world would be if we wrote everything in PHP! :)
Gosling Emacs security holes + spyware + malware! (Score:4, Funny)
Emacs has a notorious "shell" facility that can actually run a shell and send it arbitrary commands!!!
In fact, there's even a built-in scripting langauge called "Mocklisp" that enables hackers and viruses to totally reprogram the behavior of the editor (and it looks like Lisp, but without any of those confusing lexical closures and list processing functions).
Gosling Emacs is actually spyware, because it has a hidden "keyboard macro" facility that can spy on every character you type! Emacs is also malware, because at any point it can instantly undo any editing changes you've made!
One of the biggest most offensive mistakes is that James Gosling has not fixed these huge security holes in Emacs, after all these years. In fact, many of the security holes have been reimplemented in another notorious piece of communist spyware called Gnu Emacs!
All Emacs should be banned!!!
-Don
Re:Phew! (Score:1, Funny)
"OSes".
mind boggling in it's ineptness
under it's own user account
"its".
absolutely retarded setup's
"setups".