Seriously, Heartbleed was entirely caused by pointers being dangerous. This is not hard - we should get rid of general purpose pointers.
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@frabcus The danger in languages like C come from their power. If you remove the danger you remove the power. Sometimes power is needed.
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@dsilverstone @frabcus heartbleed happened because pointers were used where there was no need for them. To me that's weakness not power
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Replying to @fjmd1
@fjmd1 @frabcus Idiots exist in all spheres. Mistakes happen. The true failing here was a lack of review on critical code.

Jan 19, 2015 ยท 11:36 AM UTC