Attacking Attack Patterns

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Manfred_Nowak wrote:
> http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/
> shows patterns of attacs.
> 
> Does someone see a way to use D design patterns to stop attack patterns?
> 
> -manfred

Bounds checking takes care of quite a few issues, but that's a banal 
thing to remark.

One more interesting thing that I see doable (and have seen done in e.g. 
Perl) is the @tainted attribute, which marks an untrusted string. That 
could help with [2], [6], [7], [9], [20].


Andrei