>you would probably rather your programs crash than give away private information
Crashing on a security issue is a good thing for every kind of user. Crashing on a latent bug that COULD be exploited (maybe not possible at all) is a totally not desirable situation. The problem here is that hardening methods lack the ability to make that distinction.
Crashing on a security issue is a good thing for every kind of user. Crashing on a latent bug that COULD be exploited (maybe not possible at all) is a totally not desirable situation. The problem here is that hardening methods lack the ability to make that distinction.