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by woodruffw 263 days ago
> OOBA’s are the thing that attackers most want to do, and Rust, Fil-C, and almost all of the other memory safe languages solve that with runtime checking.

On browsers and other high-performance codebases? I would have guessed UAFs and type confusions would be higher on the attacker priority queue for the last 15 years. Rust prevents those statically.

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My data comes from OSes as a whole not just from browsers or high performance codebases.