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I am not saying there are no challenges. I am saying that CrowdStrike does not seem to have even tried to have a better process. Rust would be only a small part of the picture; just one more layer in the security posture (a small one at that, admittedly).

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Exactly. It's like the brown M&Ms in the Van Halen rider; it's not that the M&M's were the problem, but that it was a test of diligence. People who don't care about detail are likely to screw up the big things just as badly as they screw up the little things.

Being a multi-million dollar company and using unsafe languages today is not a good look. But everyone gets away with it because everyone else is doing it.

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