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by gf000 197 days ago
https://lobste.rs/c/vq3zn0

Here is a thread discussing it, but there are multiple posts/comment threads on the topic. In short, slices are fat pointers in the language, and data races over them can cause other threads to observe the slice in an invalid state, which can be used to access memory it shouldn't be able to.