The article discusses the ongoing frustration over buffer overflow bugs, highlighting their long history and avoidability. The FBI and CISA express concern over such vulnerabilities in enterprise IT that can lead to catastrophic failures. They advocate for modern programming languages that prevent these issues, while also noting the potential for improving safety in existing languages like C through better testing and coding practices. The demand for stricter measures arises amid significant investments in AI by tech companies, pointing to a lack of focus on fundamental software safety.
"It's more that this class of bug is avoidable, and has been for decades, yet it pours out of big tech like woodworm from a church pew. Enough already, they say. They are right."
"Among the many remedies suggested by the Feds is ditching C and its chaotic family in favor of more modern languages that have robust defenses against creating buffer overflows."
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