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Whitehouse Declares Software Should Be Memory Safe

Ben Halpern on February 27, 2024

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 deve...
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Andrew Bone •

Good time to learn rust 😉

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Ben Halpern •

Is Andrew Bone a government mole?

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Eljay-Adobe •

Deep state sleeper agent.

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

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Andrew Bone •

homer gif

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Arthur Kh •

meme

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Ben Halpern •

Lol

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Rachel Fazio •

Love

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Ben Halpern •

That’ll solve the problem

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Vincent A. Cicirello •

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”

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Dave Parr •

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.

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Dave Parr •

OK, immediately self-debunked my own statement: cbsnews.com/news/white-house-cyber...

TBF it was 8 years ago and in a country I'm not in.

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Shrijal Acharya •

Rust time 😂

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Vahid Nasiri •

Start learning C# :)

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Shobhit🎈✨ •

I hope it's not for ALL the software that anyone is producing 😅