Episode Details

Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post that explains how C and C++ compilers prioritize performance over correctness. This is the class story of security vs usability. Security is never the primary goal. If a security requirement doesn't also enable other business goals it will fail. We also touch on the news of a Rust package containing binary files. It doesn't really have anything to do with security, it's all about convenience.

Show Notes

• C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
• Nisha's toot
• Barry Marshall
• Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
• Why DARPA Hopes To 'Distill' Old Binaries Into Readable Code
• Mario 64 decompilation