---
id: 2397
title: "Software Security Ideas Ahead of Their Time"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/02/software-security-ideas-ahead-of-their-time/"
published_at: "2016-02-02T12:50:18Z"
tags: ["memory-safety", "history", "education", "research", "software-security", "type-safety", "programming-languages", "mailing-list"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2397"
lang: en
---

# Software Security Ideas Ahead of Their Time

## Summary

Andrew Ruef's guest post revisits a 1995 mailing-list thread whose participants anticipated memory safety and other software security problems decades before research formally addressed them.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2016-02-02T12:50:18Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/02/software-security-ideas-ahead-of-their-time/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2397