Re:A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results
by coldtea on Thursday June 30, 2016 @08:56AM
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This "just rewrite in Rust to have it be secure" is the new "just rewrite everything in assembly to have it be fast" that is popular with newbie programmers, CS freshmen etc, when they first learn about the various languages, but don't yet appreciate or understand the broader ecosystem implications...
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Re:A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results
by cm3 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:13AM
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I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the lets-ASM mentality because there is a real security problem with most code that can be solved with different language+tooling and is only insecure because of historical popularity reasons like the rise of C in the 1980s.