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by scoutt 1887 days ago
> Hardware doesn't obey Rust's rules

Neither does the OS where rustls is running.

I think Rust will have more adoption and more libraries like Rustls will be developed. I also think that when this happens, also more exploits targeting Rust code will exist too. I guess the excuse (sorry for using this word) will be: "In fact, the Rust code is still safe. What happened is that a pointer returned by (or used in) an underlying C library got messed up with a very clever timing attack, and somehow the pointer emerged into Rust code... etc.".