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by pizlonator 238 days ago
Wow that weird state machine doc is great! Thanks for sharing.

I’m lukewarm on this.

- It is long overdue and welcome.

- It won’t stop a sufficiently determined attacker because its probabilistic and too easy to only apply partially

Is this good? Yes. Does it solve memory safety? No. But does it change the economics? Yes.

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Yeah it's the most succinct explanation I've seen of weird machines and memory tagging. Definitely bookmarking this one. I wonder if video of the talk that presumably presented this is available.
I don't know tbh, and I gave that talk when I was in terrible shape, so I'm not upset ;).

If people care a lot, I can record a YouTube video on the topic.