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You can use `explicit_bzero()` to bypass DCE (dead code elimination). Otherwise, simply initializing your memory before using is enough to trigger magic failures when you use-after…

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Bummer, he pretty much proved he was on the right path with his translation theories. Maybe this was done to protect his work? As in, hes now working to complete the translation an…

Time and experience. Learning the syntax and wrapping your head around pointers and memory is the first step. After that, just try and write as much C as possible. Help out with pr…

I write C full time and I love it (Varnish Cache). In our team of about 10 full time C engineers, we spend less than an hour a month dealing with things like “memory safety”. When …

I wrote something very similar many years ago. I described it as a reverse search index. The queries/regex gets indexed into a search tree and then text is run thru it. It supporte…

This is a bit on the unsafe side since it blindly trusts user input. At minimum, there needs to be some kind of magic number in the struct header to validate its looking at the rig…

We have no problem sharing our codebase with customers, especially if there are concerns like this. Shoot me a msg if you are genuinely interested in anything you have read.

Possibly, but memory is accessed using plain CPU instructions, so it would be hard to transparently encrypt all memory for an application at the kernel level. You do have virtual m…

Yup. When something goes wrong in these kinds of applications, you sometimes tend to just randomly dump memory, which is a huge data leak. Or even worse, if someone figures out a w…

Closed source, write up would be here: https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/introducing-varnish-t...

Yup, we added this feature to Varnish Cache a few years ago, random key encryption. It generates a random key at startup and encrypts all memory with it. Since this kind of memory …

Edge facilities are warehouses in regional locations with excellent backbone connectivity, basically your modern datacenter. Cellphone towers can probably host a few racks, that's …

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Exactly. I used to live in a low rise apartment building which used modern wood construction. Not only did I hear everything above me, but the shock waves (from foot strikes) would…

We are always hiring full time C developers doing exactly what you said. Msg me if you (anyone) is interested.

If history is any guide, regime change doesn't need to come from within. Many parallels have been drawn to Saddam.

Believe it or not, US support has made KSA extremely weak, especially militarily. So its more like keep your enemies close, or in this case, oil targets. US could topple KSA in a m…

> ...Diplomatic murder, women's rights arrests, Yemen war, Canada row, royal imprisonmemt... There is also the failed blockade of Qatar. Seems like this has been a pretty disastrou…

True, and I meant this in the context where you could embed assembly into your functions if needed.

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> C aficionados often claim they love C because it's "simple"(it isn't) That's what they mean, they love C because you can't really do OO with it I do not think C programmers are a…