program to compute gears, with table

On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 2:31:14 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
wrote:

So every program that is written in high
level languages is a chance for some
unethical hacker to control something that
is yours.

Hackers (or crackers) cannot control anything
just because it is written in
a certain language.

Most Unix tools are written in C and virtually
everything, including the kernel, is written in
high level languages. The source code is
compiled into executables that cannot be
executed by outsiders.

Hackers-crackers cannot gain access to a system
by outsmarting the technology, they can only
outsmart people who give away their passwords,
carelessly install malware they get in spam,
and so on. It is a game of "you cannot fool
everyone, but you can fool some, and those are
the ones you should focus on".

Well, we'll have to differ on this. Everything is updated via the Internet these days including things like the control software for a Tesla. The most difficult password systems in the world can be broken with quantum computers. And those things calculate probabilities and not actualities as a normal computer does.

There is an entire underworld of possible control and a great deal of it is based on errors introduced by higher level languages.

Are you aware that the Americans cracked the software in the uranium centrifuges in Iran and was able to make them break down?