Kernel buffer overflow exposes iPhone 11 Pro to radio based attacks

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 01:36:15AM +0000, TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 11:07:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> > Yet another proof why system languages like D are required to take
> > over OS development.
> > 
> > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html
> 
> How many times is this going to happen before people realize it's
> almost immoral to even continue writing things in C++? I saw a tweet a
> few days ago where someone pointed out rightly that C++ is not the
> future because of its memory unsafety, and there were some people
> trying to tell him he was wrong or being too harsh or that it's just
> cool to come up with reasons to hate C++ these days. Who would have
> thought he could be vindicated mere days later.

Time will eventually prove who's right.  It may not come as fast as we'd
hope, but eventually, the weight of evidence against memory-unsafe
languages will become so overwhelming that it would speak for itself, we
wouldn't need to argue over it anymore.


T

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