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by commandersaki 440 days ago
We're essentially continuing to ship faulty software while hoping that tooling will protect us from the worst consequences.

Yet one way to measure how effective these mitigations and countermeasures are working is looking at the cost of the zero day market. The trend continues to going upwards in the stupidly expensive realm due to needing multiple chains and such to attack software. However, I'm not discounting software now developed in memory safe language doesn't already contribute to this.

Here is one of the references indicating this in the article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/06/price-of-zero-day-exploits...