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Submission + - White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (infoworld.com)

Tontoman writes: According to an article from InfoWorld, now the United States White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) is urging adoption of Rust to "reduce the risk of cyberattacks by using programming languages that don’t have memory safety vulnerabilities"

The article continues: "The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers safe. In addition, an NSA cybersecurity information sheet from November 2022 listed C#, Go, Java, Ruby, and Swift, in addition to Rust, as programming languages it considers to be memory-safe."

Comment Re:What did you expect? (Score 1) 100

Perhaps there will always be the need of a highly proficient human editor to make AI useful in any situation except, of course, over-hyped demoware. Training LLM recursively from AI-produced datasets may have been the cause of that repetitive nonsense response. In future -- non-AI-produced text could be considered the "gold standard" for training data.

Comment Re:And that is why you wire security cameras... (Score 1) 174

On the contrary, these WiFi cameras are very effective. They are deterrence effect -- if a potential burglar sees one of them they know the homeowner has a budget for security and may have other hidden wired cameras -- itmay make them uneasy -- they may choose to bypass that house. Houses here or there on a street a few of which have visible cameras -- serve as kind of a mesh -- may catch suspicious activity of people casing the neighborhood or driving around looking around repeatedly. Though it's true these can be defeated by a typical slashdot reader -- given enough time and planning and technology -- it may deter the casual teenage burglar looking for quick score. To me -- its kind of like deadbolt locks -- can be defeated with just a little stick of dynamite but still a good cost-effective security measure.

Comment Re:Simply referring to humans as resources is alre (Score 1) 129

We've seen this before. AI looks great in Powerpoint presentations but when the rubber meets the road -- it is still creative and intelligent human developers who create the technology which AI merely ingests and is trained to mimic. The only trick is for us humans to stay educated and stay innovative and AI too will find its place. Displacement will be mostly in the pencil-pusher pointy-haired-boss ranks -- though there may be a temporary period of time where AI is given undue credit. After all, it is merely trained on whatever creativity is available from us humans.

Comment Re:open source alternative (Score 1) 13

If you use Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms (that are publicly available for anyone to create an open-source implementation presumably) you should theoretically be able to transmit securely. https://www.nist.gov/news-even.... All of the algorithms are available on the NIST website. https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects...

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