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Just to avoid any “cyclist rides more aggressively when wearing helmet” type behaviour:

It’s probably worth nothing that that vast majority of, and of large scale attacks, is basic shit that has nothing to do with memory safety.

There’s benefit to memory safety, but just cause you’re wearing a helmet doesn’t mean you’re completely safe.

Additionally, it’s not Google overall, but chromium project that find this, as well as not Microsoft overall, but specifically Windows. These are two projects that will naturally see a much higher rate of memory safety issues.



> not Microsoft overall, but specifically Windows

This isn't the case: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach...

> Since 2004, the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) has triaged every reported Microsoft security vulnerability.

They've never qualified it as Windows only, to my knowledge.




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