Paranoia in secure programming

Malcolm Ray wrote:

ObBPFH: sometimes the proper level of paranoia in CGI programming messes with your head. I'm currently trapped in a twisty maze of little Safe compartments and and untainting operations, and I'm beginning to distrust myself.

Ingvar responded with:

"I wonder if I really should have privileged access to my thought? I'll have to write up a number of access routines that do proper authentication checking. Tomorrow..."

Malcolm Ray then responded with:

Insecure dependency in cortex while running with -T switch.

Date posted: 23rd February 2000