Memory-safe languages and security by design: Key insights, lessons learned

For more than 50 years, software engineers have struggled with memory vulnerabilities, but it has only been in recent times that serious efforts have been undertaken to get a handle on the problem. One of the leaders in memory safety, Google, has released a new technical report containing some valuable lessons distilled from its experience tackling the problem.

Google engineers Alex Rebert and Christoph Kern wrote in the report:

"Like others’, Google’s internal vulnerability data and research show that memory …

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