Archive 8. March 2012

Room 101: The Miracle of become:. One of the corners where Smalltalk clearly differs from all other languages I have had to do with so far (except Common Lisp, but that's different, because everything is possible there), is the become: method, with which two objects in the running system exchange their identity - so that after the call all references to a after a become: b then refer to b and vice versa. This explains what this means in practice.

Chrome can be cracked in five minutes | Products | futurezone.at: Technology-News. Oy Gevalt! I think some people need to rethink things now. No, sandboxing is not a guaranteed solution for security, it is at best a single component of a complete solution. And yes, making programs more complex also increases the complexity of the security situation. And eventually, there will be a breakthrough like this. (and no, the other browsers are no better, Chrome was just considered "secure" for longer and after the last Pwn2Own it was considered "uncrackable" by some)