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Something something history is a flat circle (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] sus@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

buffer overflows are critical for memory safety since they can cause silent data corruption (bad) and remote code execution (very bad). Compared to those a "clean" unhandled runtime error is far preferable in most cases.