• 2 Posts
  • 22 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 31st, 2023

help-circle


  • krogothMtoPulse of TruthA Deep Dive on Creepy Cameras
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    I like this comment on that page, haven’t heard about it before: «Was done…in Stockholm a few years back. Someone copied the plates of the CEO of the company operating a toll road in the city and posted it online. Folks pasted it over their own plates and used the toll road all day. The ALPR dutifully generated an humongous bill…»















  • Not sure if that is even the point. The article is all about memory unsafe programming!!1!. But there is no context at all.

    Sure, there are vulnerabilities because of unsafe memory handling. But I looked for some statistic which would bring unsafe memory handling into context with say the high profile vulnerabilities from the last few weeks / months. I haven’t spent too much time on research but looking at some lists containing vulns from the last few months it seems as if all those pre-auth, priv escalation, directory traversal and whatnot very based on much simpler failures like wrong error handling or logical errors or missing code than unsafe memory handling.

    I might be wrong, then please show me the numbers, but shooting at C/C++ because unsafe!!1! sounds like a very biased story there.

    And while we are at it. I’d also be interested in C vs. (somewhat modern) C++.