Improving c compilers is a useful exercise, and should continue happening anyway, but that doesn't solve the same problems that Rust solves.
Regardless of how good a c compiler is, it simply doesn't have the information available at compile time that a Rust compiler has available, enabling it to offer unique safety guarantees.
As for missing drivers, I don't see any suggestion that those working on adding Rust support would otherwise have been working on wifi drivers anyway.
No, you can't downgrade SMB3.1.1 to any lower protocol with a MITM attack. That was one of the fixes in SMB3.1.1.
Google "Pre-authentication integrity in SMB 3.1.1"
SMB3 can't be downgraded or compromised by dictionary attack.
SMB3 actually *is* safer, due to the cryptographic protection meaning you can't MITM downgrade it.
No, Synology and QNAP are active bug reporters to the Samba project. I fix bugs for them both on a regular basis. Funnily enough, the Apple client engineers are also very active Samba bug reporters
Have you actually *read* the GPLv2 ? I'm assuming not based on your statement. The GPLv2 text is here:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/o...
Please note the following statement copied *DIRECTLY FROM THE TEXT ABOVE*:
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."
Please note the last sentence containing the words: "plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."
Thanks for your reading comprehension.
I didn't have these handy when I posted this originally.
PDF of the full legal complaint. It's really nicely written (IMHO) and IANAL of course
https://sfconservancy.org/docs...
Press kit:
https://shoestring.agency/wp-c...
Really nice non-technical write up from sjvn (yeah I know
I agree that trying to force people to move like that is a way to lose friends.
The way I did it was by gradually spreading the word a few years ago, until probably half of my friends were on Signal after a few weeks (I have a fairly technically orientated set of friends so that wasn't too hard)
For the rest, it was about waiting for a good time. The recent media coverage about WhatsApp T&Cs (regardless of how accurate that coverage was) ended up being a good way to have a conversation with people about moving and most others either moved or already had Signal by then.
For the last handful, the conversation has been "Have you tried Signal yet? [
I'm now down to 2 contact that I use WhatApp for and I expect to have deleted my account in a few weeks.
At no point was any pressure or anything like that needed, and well timed gentle nudging works and I believe is more effective than lawsuits.
SMB3 is usually encrypted by default. The "locks" on it are very well designed these days.
Microsoft considers SMB3 with transport encryption secure enough that it's used as an ingress point for their Azure cloud.
There are no known vulnerabilities in the SMB3 protocol. Implementations however, of course, can and do contain bugs.
With your bare hands?!?
