alt Hacker NewsI would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language.
They did make some noise about enabling Swift for embedded development at last years WWDC.
Although Qualcomm's big zero day last year was related to the DSP and not the baseband, I believe.
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saagarjha • last Wednesday at 10:55 PM
It’s C(++) judging by the strings in the firmware
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FirmwareBurner • last Wednesday at 5:25 PM
>I would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language.
Memory safe languages don't protect from human programmer complacency and stupidity, or from incidental alphabet agency backdoors.
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Here’s hoping. Bets on Swift v Rust?
I swear if they wrote a modem from scratch in C that’s a major own goal