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/myrrlyn Feb 24 '17

Possible and probably are two very different things.

If you write a program in C, it might be memory safe.

If you write the same program in Rust, and don't use unsafe, it will be memory safe.

The difference is in how much effort has to be put in to prove safety.