Alex Gaynor 11/20/2017

A vulnerability by any other name

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The article discusses how high-profile vulnerabilities like Heartbleed drive industry change, but the pervasive problem of memory unsafety in C/C++ causes thousands of bugs without similar attention. It cites data from major software releases and Google's security projects, advocating for a shift to memory-safe languages like Rust to address this root cause.

A vulnerability by any other name

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