Prioritizing Memory Safety Migrations
With all the talk of using Rust to reduce memory unsafety bugs, such as Android using Rust in the Android Open Source Project, there’s a lot of extremely reasonable concern about the high cost of “rewriting it all in Rust” (or any other safer language), as it’s often phrased. Operating syste...
Hasnain says:
“Ian explains everything in full detail in his post, but in general we should not think of C/C++ code as defensible. If an attacker is able to get at C/C++ attack surface, we must assume they can win.”
Posted on 2021-04-11T18:00:45+0000