What's the next tech problem to be solved in software security?

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At 8:33 AM -0400 6/9/07, der Mouse wrote:

> > Immunity from buffer overflows has been around for 30 years.  The
> > fact that some set of developers choose to ignore the languages that
> > provide it does not make the next environment that provides it an
> > improvement for the industry.
>
> I'd disagree - if it means a significant increase in people actually
> using such environments (languages, whatever), then it's an
> improvement for the industry, even if it's no theoretical advance.

A law which outlawed unsafe languages could also be effective, but it
would not solve a "tech problem", which is the basis for this thread.
At best these are solutions to "social problems" or "education problems".
-- 
Larry Kilgallen