The latest DNS bug is terrifying, widespread, and reveals deep flaws in Internet security

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@Jorpho

I thought plans to mitigate buffer overflow problems once and forever were instigated quite some time ago, by clearly segregating code from data. Surely that went somewhere?

ha ha ha

Not as long as things are written in C or C++! We talk about “footguns” at work and C and C++ are the biggest.