#chestertonsfence — Public Fediverse posts
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The choice of language isn't going to help much if the people writing the rusty replacements for decades-old tools don't bother to understand the security issues and attack surfaces that led to the design of those tools in the first place.
Similarly, Linux distributions shipping #screensaver implementations that are essentially nothing but a login-bypass mechanism that wastes CPU/GPU cycles.
#Rust #C #secure #design #tool #software #XScreenSaver #attack #Chesterton #ChestertonsFence #fence