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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Quite a spectacular security bug
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:28:06 +0000
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:21:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:

> In article <dd966b72384e88feb501ba3addfbc246@www.novabbs.org>,
> mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:40:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:
>>> A company that doesn't find that kind of flaw is thoroughly
>>> capable of missing a memory management problem.

>> Missing something as easy as that makes one wonder about how much
>> other stuff testing missed ??
>
> Exactly. Thinking something is too simple to need testing is a
> fundamental error.

We generally budgeted:: engineering$$ == verification$$

>
> John