Rust will save Linux from AI, says Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- Rust will save Linux from C's inherent security weaknesses.
- Linux, faced with a flood of AI-discovered security problems, could use the help.
- Going forward, more and more Linux code will be written in Rust.
At the Rust Week conference, the world's biggest Rust language conference, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman opened by saying: "I'm here to talk about untrusted data and Linux, and how Rust is going to save us." After "a long month or two on the kernel security list," he pushed that point even further: "I'm going to make even a bolder statement and say, 'You are going to save Linux.' Sorry, it's all on you."
Saving? Linux needs saving?
What he was talking about was the sudden flood of serious Linux security holes being discovered, such as ...
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