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The very insecure C memory model might have made sense in the 70s when computers were so much slower and the Internet didn't exist but now when a buffer overflo
by UltraSane 1y ago
The very insecure C memory model might have made sense in the 70s when computers were so much slower and the Internet didn't exist but now when a buffer overflow can give anyone on the internet root access to your server it is a disaster.
- mrkeen 1y agoThere's a fair bit of work to do if we want to retire some of these C programs: https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/python/cpython https://github.com/python/cpython
- UltraSane 1y agoYep we have made a huge mess for ourselves but we can at least stop writing NEW critical software in memory unsafe languages.