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Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by 0x0 to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

In February, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged technology companies to adopt memory-safe programming languages like Rust.

My comment is somewhat unfair, but WH is not the right body to make this kind of recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And the problem is about executing programs in windows. This is not about memory-safety.

A bunch of other languages are affected as well as noted by @[email protected].

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Why not? I mean they are right. Adopting memory safe languages is a good step forward, because it would eliminate bunch of mistakes before they happen. And the White House does not recommend Rust only, but a memory-safe language, something like Rust or something different. I wish my government would do the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who would be then, Department of Defense, NSA, CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security? Aren’t all those the same body (executive) as White House of the National Cyber Director? Is your problem with having White House in the name?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those agencies are under the executive branch, and its been made very clear in the past that they prefer sneaking in backdoors to valid best practices.

The NSA sabotaging the Elliptic Curve method of random number generation used in the RSA algorithm comes to mind. They would otherwise be THE experts to trust, but lets look at the others:

FBI - Waco, Ruby Ridge, planned to assassinate Martin Luther King and so many others. CIA - promotes fascism internationally, causing all sorts of chaos in Latin America and the Middle East. Ever wonder how Komeni's faction overthrew the Shah? The CIA decided he had gone soft.

Germany is so trusting of the US on cyber-security measures that their government has been trying to ditch Windows for over a decade.

TL;DR: In the US, government experts do NOT have your personal security best interests at heart. They can and will use any dirty trick possible to spy on and control both our own citizens and those of other countries. Last authories that anyone should trust.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backdoor-in-rsas-cryptography-a-technical-primer