Whitehouse Declares Software Should Be Memory Safe

#discuss #watercooler #news #security

Not sure I saw this coming

Kind of interesting and funny to see the US federal government weigh in on a topic of such specificity in software development.

Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House

whitehouse.gov

Top comments (16)

Andrew Bone • Feb 27 '24

Good time to learn rust 😉

Ben Halpern • Feb 27 '24

Is Andrew Bone a government mole?

Eljay-Adobe • Feb 28 '24

Deep state sleeper agent.

Before the sleeper awakens, we all had better learn Rust. And pronto!

Andrew Bone • Feb 28 '24

Arthur Kh • Feb 28 '24

Ben Halpern • Feb 28 '24

Lol

Rachel Fazio • Feb 29 '24

Love

Ben Halpern • Feb 27 '24

That’ll solve the problem

Vincent A. Cicirello • Feb 27 '24

It might seem surprising to see this from the Whitehouse, but some months ago, the NSA and CISA along with their counterparts from other countries made this recommendation.

U.S. and International Partners Issue Recommendations to Secure Software Products Through Memory Safety > National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Press Release View

FORT MEADE, Md. - The National Security Agency (NSA) joins Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and U.S. and international partners in releasing ”The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps”

nsa.gov

Dave Parr • Feb 28 '24

Fun that the govenrment choose to wiegh in on memory operations, but not more public accessible and tangible things like password reuse across multiple platforms and multi-factor authentication.