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by delfinom 993 days ago
Not to worry, there are serialization and other vulnerabilities in memory safe languages :3
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Eliminating a whole class of vulnerabilities is the right thing to do regardless of whether other classes of vulnerabilities remain.
The solution, if you can consider there to be one, was always languages with semantics to guarantee logical correctness. But we're never going to get that because it requires a pace of software development that's incompatible with the money people's fetish for churn and burn. So let's put all our eggs into the Rust basket and while we're at it trust the hardware to never lead us astray :)
I never lock my door because burglars can break a window.
In both safe and unsafe languages