I wouldn't be allowed to build a skyscraper out of fatigued and rusty scrap iron. There is no reasonable amount of money and effort that could make that work, and just wanting to try would mark me as unqualified to do construction.
The heartbleed bug was a classic buffer overrun of the kind C has been causing for decades. When someone comes along saying "If you pay me, I'm going to write security software using unchecked pointer arithmetic" how do we as a community agree that the only response will be "That's a terrible idea and nobody will pay you for it"?
The heartbleed bug was a classic buffer overrun of the kind C has been causing for decades. When someone comes along saying "If you pay me, I'm going to write security software using unchecked pointer arithmetic" how do we as a community agree that the only response will be "That's a terrible idea and nobody will pay you for it"?