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So in fact this whole shebang about memory safety is driven by a statistic about memory safety errors in Microsoft products.

And yet the memory safety advocates everywhere are waving that number around like 70% of all security issues are caused by memory safety.

I note Chromium project also says "The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems." https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

Then you get headlines like this: "Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues", which is flat out wrong and contradicts itself the first line of the article.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

The HN post that we are commenting on even says "To me, the fact 70% of security vulnerabilities arise from a lack of memory safety is not the reason that memory safety is important." which is also false and certainly needs clarification.




Perhaps the correct statement is something like "70% of security vulnerabilities in large projects written in C or C++ are memory safety issues", with the understanding that there are both a lot of software that are and aren't subject to that statistic.




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