Re: Exploiting code: The Future

Alan Turing taught us that there is no limit to what can be done with a
"Turing complete" programming language. Consequently, the amount of
things that can be done wrong is probably infinite.

Off-topic, but I can't let this go--didn't Alan Turing actually
demonstrate that there *are* limits to what can be done with
Turing-style computation? e.g., the Halting Problem? Or any other of a
whole slew of undecidable problems?

Agreed that we probably haven't found all the ways that programmers
can screw up, though :)

-Brendan

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