Preface: SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.
Background: Exploring Mars helps scientists understand major changes in climate that can fundamentally change the planet. It also allows us to look for biological features that might reveal whether there was abundant life on Mars in the past?
SpaceX engineers shared the programming languages they code in are: “C & C++ for flight software, HTML, JavaScript & CSS for displays
and python for testing,” adding that they “use HTML, JavaScript & CSS. We use Web Components heavily.”
Common programming weaknesses: Many memory manipulation functions in C and C++ do not perform bounds checking and can easily overwrite the allocated bounds of the buffers they operate upon.
- Mistaken assumptions about the size
- By design, forming a piece of data is the root cause of most buffer overflows.
Ref: In a classic buffer overflow exploit, the attacker sends data to a program, which it stores in an undersized stack buffer. The result is that information on the call stack is overwritten, including the function’s return pointer. The data sets the value of the return pointer so that when the function returns, it transfers control to malicious code contained in the attacker’s data.
Reality factor: There are many additional programming functions make the situation complex that a programmer cannot accurately predict its behavior.
My view point: Human beings want to explore the universe to meet their needs, and find a way to develop our living space free from the limitations of the earth. In fact, the speed of the rocket is the limit. If you think about it, it will take nine months to reach Mars. But we know that Mars is not suitable for human habitation. Why don’t we take time to improve the air pollution on the planet. In addition, if we can adjust the global greenhouse effect. Therefore, our new life is coming.