Re:The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005)
by josephg on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:23PM
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Right; which is why all the things on that list are so important. We can’t seem to stop the endless flood of memory bugs in C/C++ code. Iirc 65% of security issues in chrome are due to memory corruption. But we can move to Rust and friends, where those bugs are a lot harder to write.
We’ll never get the bug count to 0. That isn’t the goal. The goal is to get the number of in-the-wild exploited vulnerabilities as low as possible. And there’s all sorts of ways to move the needle on that, which don’t require humans to suddenly become infallible.
We’ll never get the bug count to 0. That isn’t the goal. The goal is to get the number of in-the-wild exploited vulnerabilities as low as possible. And there’s all sorts of ways to move the needle on that, which don’t require humans to suddenly become infallible.