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Comment by tester756

Ain't gonna lie

I thought this tweet

>Computer security would be about 80% solved if we just deprecated every technology shown in this graphic.

is going to be about memory unsafe languages like C, C++ and JIT compilers (web browser) since

>Around 70% of our high severity security bugs are memory unsafety problems (that is, mistakes with C/C++ pointers). Half of those are use-after-free bugs.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

>Figure 1: ~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach...

Also HN title is editorialized.

parent tester756 3 years ago

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