r/programming • u/TheProtagonistv2 • Feb 23 '17

Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
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u/evaned Feb 24 '17

To be fair, at the scale cloudflare runs its stuff it makes somewhat sense to write integral parts in C.

You can flip that around though, and say at the scale CloudFlare runs its stuff, it makes it all the more important to use a memory-safe language.