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Message-ID: <002001c3f649$ce38a490$0201a8c0@fosi>
From: steve.wray at paradise.net.nz (Steve Wray)
Subject: Re: GAYER THAN AIDS ADVISORY #01: IE 5 remote
 code execution

> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
[snip]
>
>Oh, give me a break. Some developer went, "Oh, hey, I'm not bounds
>checking there. Okay, fix that," and the changes filtered out into
>the release of IE.

I'm curious. As a non-C programmer, is there ever a reason to
*not* do bounds checking? (I mean outside of intensely performance
critical applications like realtime control systems (which would
probably be better in assembly anyway). I don't count an OS or a
web browser as 'intensely performance critical'; they are, rather,
'intensely security and stability critical').

Thanks!


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