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Security problem of code

o) Does C++ have any security problems ?
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(

Jul 8 '07 #1
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On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:03:45 +0000, ve**************@yahoo.com wrote:
o) Does C++ have any security problems ?
All security problems stems from your own programming errors,
not the langauge.
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(
Isn't paranoia wonderful.

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Obnoxious User
Jul 8 '07 #2
On 2007-07-08 10:03, ve**************@yahoo.com wrote:
o) Does C++ have any security problems ?
No, but your code might
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(

That's a security-problem with your servers and have nothing to do with
C++, however, to be frank I doubt that you have any "top secrets" that
anyone would want to steal. If someone hacked your server it would
probably be to use it as a zombie or to send SPAM.

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Jul 8 '07 #3
<ve**************@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@e9g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com...
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(
You are concerned that unknown people out there will break in and steal your
secrets, but you are soliciting advice from other unknown people as to what
to do about it.

What's wrong with this picture?
Jul 9 '07 #4
On Jul 9, 2:33 am, "Andrew Koenig" <a...@acm.orgwrote:
<venuswilliams...@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@e9g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com...
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(
You are concerned that unknown people out there will break in and steal your
secrets, but you are soliciting advice from other unknown people as to what
to do about it.
What's wrong with this picture?
Is it possible that he's not read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on
Trusting Trust"? I would have thought that that would be one of
the first things one would read if one is concerned with
security.

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Jul 9 '07 #5
ve**************@yahoo.com wrote:
o) Does C++ have any security problems ?
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away our
top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to store
them. They are baaaad :-(
New group troll?

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SM
rot13 for email
Jul 9 '07 #6
Shadowman wrote:
ve**************@yahoo.com wrote:
>o) Does C++ have any security problems ?
o) We'd like to put up our special tennis game online after we finish
hard-coding and enforcing compiling error reduction.
o) We are afraid the users would hack in our servers and take away
our top secrets, we will lose everything, because we use servers to
store them. They are baaaad :-(
New group troll?
Yep. Probably a Marion Bartoli fan...
Jul 9 '07 #7

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