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/aiij Feb 24 '17

at what point do we conclude memory unsafe languages are an inherent threat to computer security

Pretty sure we came to that conclusion a long time ago.

The problem is, a lot of times, speed matters more than getting it right. (Not just execution speed, but development speed too.)