America only seems to work on cash incentives, so they should make some hundred million dollars in grants or so for businesses to "invest" in rebuilding important infrastructure in memory safe languages.
I'm not convinced of the memory safe language hype train honestly. Every single application could be 100% bulletproof and we would still live in a world where the CFO downloads a random exe from a phishing email and runs it with admin privileges. That still seems to be the main way institutions and people are compromised. We make jokes about "you can't defend yourself from a nation-state actor" but half the time the primary infection point for everything from North Korea to 15 year old Kevin playing with MyFirstRansomeware is to just put it in an email and let people do the work for you, or copy a log in page and let the user give you their credentials.
Edit: lol people very very very angry that I dared to say "hey maybe rust ain't gonna save our world".
I'm not convinced of the memory safe language hype train honestly. Every single application could be 100% bulletproof and we would still live in a world where the CFO downloads a random exe from a phishing email and runs it with admin privileges. That still seems to be the main way institutions and people are compromised. We make jokes about "you can't defend yourself from a nation-state actor" but half the time the primary infection point for everything from North Korea to 15 year old Kevin playing with MyFirstRansomeware is to just put it in an email and let people do the work for you, or copy a log in page and let the user give you their credentials.
Edit: lol people very very very angry that I dared to say "hey maybe rust ain't gonna save our world".
Jesus guys. Have some nuance.