Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:
Sadly, C++ standardization leadership’s engagement with the memory safety topic is going even more embarrassingly badly than in January:
https://pony.social/@thephd/111550692413752045
The very first sentence is: “Memory safety is a very small part of security.” … Despite the result that about 70% of software vulnerabilties are memory-safety issues has been repeated at multiple organizations (Mozilla, Microsoft, parts of Google, IIRC also Apple).
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