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70% of all security fixes Microsoft releases are memory safety bugs. https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-70-percent-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-iss

70% of all security fixes Microsoft releases are memory safety bugs. https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-70-percent-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-70-percent-all-secur... This isn't a security issue, NASA isn't Microsoft, and physically degraded memory isn't the same as a memory safety programming bug. I'll certainly bet that article is super popular with the rust crowd though.

steveklabnik 5y ago
That article specifically is popular with the Rust crowd, yes, but moreover, that roughly that number (70%-80%) has been replicated by a multiple big tech companies, not just Microsoft. Chrome was another large name. (And yes you're right none of this has to do with this stuff, for sure.)