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You make good points. A reasonable path forward would be developing single purpose devices, with software written in safe languages like Rust and Swift (and OCa
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
You make good points. A reasonable path forward would be developing single purpose devices, with software written in safe languages like Rust and Swift (and OCaml, Haskell, etc. ?)
Simpler processors, simpler designs, secure small operating systems.
Before the 9/11 wrong turn our government made, the NSA did a lot of public good work hardening Linux, worked with the FBI to go after international digital crime syndicates, etc. We lost our way, and we need to find it again.
To do all this we need to start with the educational system, making secure computing a big thing in the job market, so upstream, professors do the right research, and train students.