[erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust

Attila Rajmund Nohl attila.r.nohl@REDACTED
Mon Sep 25 11:41:52 CEST 2017


2017-09-23 9:28 GMT+02:00 Oliver Korpilla <Oliver.Korpilla@REDACTED>:
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> Having said that I see no immense security risk in writing code for a remote sensor in C. It avoids one of the prime security risks: human user interactions and all the buffer overrun problems and string processing stuff that is so hard to do safely that there are still books being written about.

If it is connected to the internet (the first letter in IoT), then it
at least needs to handle IPv4 - and it involves parsing of potentially
untrusted data.



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