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		keel-control 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium ver... Google has the means and ability to rewrite Chromium ; bug for bug in Rust from C++ using Astra & Fable. Same for the Linux kernel. Considering the Fermat's Last Theorem lean proof was 13MLoC and cost $300,000 it would cost $2M to rewrite Chromium & Linux in Rust going purely of combined LoC.
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mccr8 6 days ago | [–]

Writing Chromium entirely in Rust wouldn't prevent a JIT bug like this.

keel-control 6 days ago | | [–]

ok for this CVE exactly it wouldn't have worked but the general pareto 80-20 rule stands regarding the rest of the memory safety vulns

weberer 6 days ago | [–]

Why don't you do it and post it here then?

keel-control 6 days ago | [–]

I don't have $2M

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