alt Hacker News>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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GeekyBear • last Wednesday at 6:26 PM
The patch notes for Qualcomm's big zero day exploit last year certainly gives the impression that this was yet another example of a memory safety error.
> According to the patch instructions, the fix works by adding direct memory access handle references.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366612994/Hig...
Sure, but they do protect from a massive swath of real attacks
Don’t guarantee complete safety but do eliminate a massive attack surface