secure shorts

[Joseph Sinclair]

Actually, it's a good idea for Java too, since doing these things securely is NOT actually required, and a LOT of Java software does it insecurely because of that assumption.

der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> at one point I tried to start something on just having 5 or 10 minutes at
> the beginning of each meeting on some secure coding mechanism.
> 
> For instance, how to securely create temporary files or how to securely
> allocate memory.
> 
> Yeah, yeah, all you java heads just laugh because it's already required by
> the language, but you could cover how to handle the exceptions when they
> do occur...
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans