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jerfyesterday at 2:51 PM1 replyview on HN

I've been using this as a touchstone for whether or not we are actually going to take security seriously for a long time.

We've moved slightly closer to this, but in a world where we're still arguing over memory safety being necessary we've probably still got a ways to go before we notice that addition silently overflowing is a top-10 security issue. It's the silent top-10 security issue, I guess.


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fyrn_yesterday at 3:18 PM

Isn't it often combined with poor bounds checks to be exploitable? It's not as if rust or VM based languages don't help a lot with this