Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by userbinator on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:58PM (#27557091)

The comment is inflammatory and over-the-top, but I can definitely relate to the sentiment and comparison with fascism. For the software industry, "memory safety" is the new form of authoritarianism in disguise. No more jailbreaking, rooting, or running what you want on hardware you rightfully "bought". All in the name of "safety and security". They want to proclaim everything else to be "unsafe" to further their goals of total control.

As the infamous quote says, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by wmf on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:25PM (#27557473)

IMO a secure system with a developer mode switch is a better tradeoff than "please don't fix bugs because I need them to jailbreak". Unfortunately almost everybody is leaving out the developer mode switch.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by pcwalton on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:15PM (#27575954)

Is it also authoritarianism when Linux fixes local root exploits? Or syscall RCE?

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by pjmlp on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:25AM (#27558531)

Memory safety system programming languages exist since early 1960's and already by 1980 it was known that UNIX and C were a disservice to mankind, sadly profit and free beer OS was more appealing than security.

The only thing we are giving up is cowboy programming.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by wtetzner on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:11PM (#27703215)

Isn't the authoritarianism in the fact that the hardware you buy doesn't let you just install your own firmware?

"Memory safety" has the word "safety" in it, but really it's just a tool to help developers avoid bugs. I want to be able to install whatever I like on my hardware, but I certainly don't want other people to be able to install whatever they want on my hardware.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by Sunscratch on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:19AM (#27577821)

Let me rephrase your comment: “Saving people from suicides is come kind of fascism and authoritarianism - no more freedom to make decisions related to your own life.”

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by Noneofya on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:26AM (#27588620)

Well, yes.

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