From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:17:40 +0800
To: Bill Frantz <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
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At 08:35 PM 5/7/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>Now, if we could only go back 30 years and give C a reasonable string
>model, we might be able to eliminate 50% of the known holes in Unix
>security.

Though shalt not use static size buffers for variable length data. [I don't
need to tell this to Bill and many others on this list. The rest better
chisel it in granite. :-]



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