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by UncleMeat 1755 days ago
Then drop the analogy.

If I install software that was written in C++ on a device I own and it processed untrusted content then I put myself as fairly major risk of all sorts of harm. There are only two resolutions for this problem:

1. No more memory-unsafe languages on security boundaries.

2. Extremely effective sandboxing and process isolation.

#2 has proven very hard. But we know how to do #1. We just need to spend the effort.