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		jwiley on July 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steam hit by major security breach No idea or visibility into Steam's backend. Hope to god they are not using C for this very reason. Great for games, terrible for SAS

ars on July 27, 2015 | [–]

If you wrote it like that this bug would happen in every language. There is nothing in there that is worse because of C.

rizzin on July 27, 2015 | | [–]

Yeah, but in other (more high-level) languages you simply wouldn't compare strings byte by byte.

delroth on July 27, 2015 | | | [–]

Neither would you do it in C.

XMPPwocky on July 27, 2015 | [–]

Their webapp is (AFAIK) all PHP; not sure what the backend looks like.

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