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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  3863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer

It's pretty clear to me that security vulnerabilities will never cease to exist.

There will always be some backdoor, some new exploit the dev's haven't patched yet.

It's a question of who has the wits and resources to uncover them, and of their intents and relationship with the dev's.





user-inactivated  ·  3862 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can prove a program, which can help in assurances of security. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/476959/why-cant-programs-be-proven

From a cursory search, I found this as an example of a formerly verified web browser: http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/. I don't happen to know a lot about this approach (I know nothing about this approach, really), but I do know that you can make certain guarantees about security (I guess assuming there are no bugs in your implementation of what you've proven).