Re: Delphi and buffer overflows

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:46:06 GMT, Majid2k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:

All Programs compiled in Delphi are secure


Explain. Do tell. How does a language manage to be Turing-complete and
at the same time provably secure? (Hint - Turing-complete includes the
possibility of a program infinite looping, so at the very least, there's
the possibility of a loop causing a DoS attack....)

Or did Delphi use some different definition of "secure"?

Valdis, I tend to like Delphi and agree with the guy, but you are 100% correct.

That is because [especially] in the world of security the following words should be banned: all, every, never, etc.

I bet that if you put a backdoor into a program written in Delphi it will no longer be 100% secure, right? That may be a bit of immature nitpicking, but really..

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