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by wglb
357 days ago
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> Do you remember the actual Heartbleed bug? Vividly. I spent a full week on remediation, even though the risk we had was traced to a single linux box exposed to the internet that had tens of kb of traffic over the last year. Being proactive, we reissued all certificates for all of our internally deployed ssl points. > In my own experience, seasoned engineers often remind me that every line of code is a liability. Tens of millions of lines of C++ that work closely with the internet sounds like quite the surface area. No question. I don't question the wisdom of rewriting all of it in Rust. Having spent 60 years in the software business, I have a feeling for the size of the effort. And for what it is worth, I don't have any doubt about the competency of the teams involved. |
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