Comments on: Ptacek vs. Lawson: 2007 predictions revisited

By: Nate Lawson

Nate Lawson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:03:58 +0000

Yeah, Tom’s been gloating about that although I like to focus on the other half (that it didn’t involve malware or an actual threat to that particular flight). :)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:26:39 +0000

Actually, you guys were half right on the TSA prediction. One woman (UK nationality, flying UK/US) had her laptop seized by US customs and they demanded the passwords for it so they could access the info on it. Scary times….

By: newsham

newsham — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:30:57 +0000

I do not share Tom’s enthusiasm for C++ bugs.
“A huge chunk of our infrastructure was written in C++ in the mid-late ’90s, and until recently there was a mass delusion that C++ was safer than C.” The mass delusion remains, largely, fact. C++ code is mostly still safer than C code. The C++ bugs are real, but the C bugs are realerer.