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Rust vs. C — Linux’s Uncivil War
Richi Jennings | | Christoph Hellwig, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hector Martin, Linus Torvalds, Linux, memory exploit, memory safe, memory safe language, rust, Rust adoption, Rust Programming Language, SB Blogwatch
Kernel Panic in the Rust Belt. Memory safety: GOOD. Cheese motion: BAD ...
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Rust: Officially Released in Linux 6.1 Kernel
Richi Jennings | | Linux, memory exploit, rust, SB Blogwatch, they're adopting a wait-and-C approach, Vulnerabilities
At the weekend, Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.1 to the world. Among other security features is support for writing parts of the kernel in Rust ...
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NSA’s Plea: Stop Using C and C++ (Because You’re Idiots)
Richi Jennings | | Linux, memory exploit, National Security Agency, Neal Ziring, nsa, rust, SB Blogwatch, Vulnerabilities
The C and C++ languages are unsafe. Instead, the NSA would like devs to use memory-safe languages—such as Rust ...
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ECC Memory Not Safe from Rowhammer Attack
Lucian Constantin | | bit flipping, ECC memory, error-correcting code, memory defect, memory exploit, Rowhammer
Researchers have proven for the first that that error-correcting code (ECC) memory can be affected by the same bit-flipping attack known as Rowhammer that plagues regular DRAM memory. Rowhammer is a memory defect ...
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