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Quebec government to pay researchers for discovering vulnerabilities

2 pointsby mrpotatoabout 3 years ago

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sylwareabout 3 years ago
Until they research directly the machine code, because backdoors would be injected using our dear open source compilers which are obfuscated by complexity and size. For instance the C&#x2F;kernel-C&#x2F;rust&#x2F;c++&#x2F;D&#x2F;F&#x2F;go&#x2F;javavm&#x2F;python&#x2F;perl&#x2F;php&#x2F;etc code would not have any &quot;convenient bugs&quot; but the generated (interpreter) machine code would.<p>Actually, I would not bother, because it is insane, and I would start to re-write a significant part of everything in assembly with a conservative usage of a pre-processor. Hopefully risc-v will become the de-facto standard since there is no toxic IP (Intellectual Property) tied to it... well... this is an issue only in countries where such toxic IP (Intellectual Property) has a legal value, but nobody can ignore reasonably those barbaric countries... (similar issue with MGPEG-LA&#x2F;HDMI&#x2F;etc).