You may not be rewriting the world in Rust, but if you follow the findings of the Android team and our guest Jeff Vander Stoep, you'll drive down your memory-unsafety vulnerabilities more than 2X below the industry average over time! 🎉

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/15/a-little-bit-of-rust-goes-a-long-way/

Links: - https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html - “Safe Coding”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3651621 - “effectiveness of security design”: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16LZ6T-tcjgp3T8_N3m0pa5kNA1DwIsuMcQYDhpMU7uU/edit#slide=id.g3e7cac054a_0_89 - https://security.googleblog.com/2024/02/improving-interoperability-between-rust-and-c.html - https://github.com/google/crubit - https://github.com/google/autocxx - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug) - https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/rule-of-2.md - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/alexopoulos -https://kb.meinbergglobal.com/kb/time_sync/ntp/ntp_vulnerabilities_reported_2023-04 - https://blog.isosceles.com/the-legacy-of-stagefright/ - https://research.google/pubs/secure-by-design-googles-perspective-on-memory-safety/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrH2lcl9ew - https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/rust/building-rust-modules/overview - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen - https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/rustc-interop-in-android-platform.html

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