How Java™ Could Have Prevented Heartbleed
By Javier S. López | Date posted: April 29, 2014

OpenSSL continues to cast a shadow over the IT industry’s poor choice of programming languages for developing secure software. Neils Ferguson and Bruce Schneier’s mantra, that using a programming language without protection against buffer overflows is tantamount to criminal negligence, is a continuous reminder of memory related security bugs that plague our industry.