Re: FTP over SSL

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Date: 05/16/02


Date: 16 May 2002 00:27:09 -0700

David Magda <dmagda+usenet@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote in message news:<86lmalv8w1.fsf@number6.magda.ca>...

> Just because it's written in Java doesn't mean its automagically
> secure.

This is true. What I was referring to was in regards to buffer
overflows, which is something that plagues many daemons written in
C/C++.



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