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Untrusted data in Linux — How Rust is going to save us

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Untrusted data in Linux — How Rust is going to save us by Greg Kroah-Hartman. One of the most common security issues in all software is handling data that is not trusted properly. The Linux kernel is not unique in this, and has had some rudimentary ways to track data flowing from userspace into the kernel for decades. Unfortunately, that tracking is very limited, and relies on external checkers to be run on the codebase which often does not happen. One of the speaker's long-time goals is to fi

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