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Re:Rust 1.17 by flukus on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:26PM (#14215986)
> We need a major IoT meltdown to get rid of it, unfortunately it won't happen until the industry lets UNIX clones go.

Rust isn't going to stop IoT makers from leaving ports open and default passwords set.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by kbenson on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:50PM (#14216093)
No, but it may protect (to some degree) those that do use good authentication practices from also being exploited from exploitable libraries.

Bad defaults is a problem with IoT devices, but far from the only problem.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by pjmlp on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:36AM (#14217075)
No, but there is a whole class of errors related to UB, memory corruption and data conversions that just by avoiding C will never happen.

You don't even need Rust, Algol 68 would be enough.

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