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Statement of the problem

Today, Internet is not the safe network it once was. The Internet is full of hostile elements, trying to find a way to attack and gain control of our system for various purposes. Most successful attacks exploit well-known weaknesses derived from insecure programming techniques, specially buffer overflows and protocol abuse. No program can be expected to be completely secure, however how carefully it is written.



Gunnar Wolf
2001-03-12