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It's going to take a lot more than a new programming language to fix the problems. If there's 10 million dollars worth of data to steal, that's enough to pay an
by Taek 11y ago
It's going to take a lot more than a new programming language to fix the problems. If there's 10 million dollars worth of data to steal, that's enough to pay an entire team of professionals to work full time for a year or more on stealing the data, with a huge payout.
Being secure against that kind of attack is going to require an entire paradigm shift in how we approach security. New languages, new operating systems, and new assumptions about how much an attacker has compromised, including learning to keep things heavily compartmentalized.