Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "US Government declares the safest programming language" video.

  1. Your Dad was smart and knew that the only way to be "safe" in certain ways was to give up on Turing completeness. One can afford that for science and aerospace systems, but it's a rather hard way to make a living as an app programmer.
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  2. The much better way is to make arrays of the length of powers of two and to mask the index with a binary operation. If you want a significantly higher level of security still, then you use the MMU. None of this does anything for you if the attacker has hardware and root access. These are all just obfuscation techniques. If you need truly secure systems, then they need to be isolated physically. A strong steel door is the best way to go. ;-)
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  3. There is such an agency. It's called "The Department of Justice". Trust me, you don't want to interact with it.
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  4. C is as secure as the coder wants it to be. The problem is, at the end of the day, always the coder.
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  5. Why would the WH care how slow your program is? ;-)
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