On 5/5/2017 11:26 PM, Joakim wrote:
Walter: I believe memory safety will kill C.
I can't find any definitive explanation of what the Wannacry exploit is. One person told me it was an overflow bug, another that it was truncation from converting 32 to 16 bits.
Anyhow, the Wannacry disaster looks to be a very expensive lesson in using memory unsafe languages for critical software. I know Microsoft has worked for years to use their own C which is memory safer, apparently it is not enough.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/martynl/2005/10/10/annotations-yet-more-help-finding-buffer-overflows/
