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Re: Hold your horses!

You have fallen into the trap. You are a good example of what I wrote about people using Rust saying that automatically makes them more secure.

Rust has certain features, but it can not stop you writing insecure programs. Let's say you have the most memory-safe Rust program out there, yet your shoddy programming still has an error - let's say you accept an authentication token that you should not or you allow access from an IP range that you shouldn't because you can't calculate a netmask properly. Congratulations. Your memory safe program will not save you, yet you think you are safe just because you are suing Rust. These are trivial examples that I see today in all sorts of programming "examples", and no doubt I will see them in Rust too.

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