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<p class="MsoNormal">I am reading a plug here at Sandia about the new Samsung phone and it’s very vulnerable software:
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-operating-system-bugs-vulnerabilities">
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-operating-system-bugs-vulnerabilities</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I looked up strcpy, I found this: <a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/stop-using-strncpy-already/">
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/stop-using-strncpy-already/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It made me start to wonder – do we care about ParaView (which of course runs in user space). I just looked, and there are about 1800 uses of strcpy in ParaView. Is that an issue?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">W. Alan Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ParaView Support Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SAIC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sandia National Laboratories, MS 0822<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Org 9326 - Building 880 A1-K<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(505) 284-0932 FAX (505) 284-5619<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The most exciting phrase to hear in science <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov<o:p></o:p></p>
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