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by steveklabnik 4150 days ago
I value it very highly, otherwise, I wouldn't work on Rust. :)

I'm just very careful to not suggest that memory safety is the end-all, be-all of errors. The Rust compiler will help you out, but it's certainly not perfect.
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MichaelGG 4150 days ago
Even if it was perfect, nothing can help you if you choose to specifically choose to share data. It was my fault for having only skimmed the original Heartbleed explanation and just made the assumption it was a memory safety issue. Sorry for making Rust look bad, especially right when y'all are working so hard on 1.0.
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steveklabnik 4150 days ago
It's all good. :) We all make mistakes.

Further, I would frankly people understand that you _can_ have security bugs in Rust code, rather than think that if it compiles, there's no need to do security auditing. This post is almost a PSA of sorts. :)

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