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Of course. Security is the exercise of making programs not do things. Since the very beginning of computer science we've understand that programs want to be able to do anything at a very fundamental level. We'll never solve security completely.

But it is embarrassing that we've been living with memory safety issues for 50 years and they still remain very common and very severe, despite being addressable via type systems in ways that something like a logical bug that leads to data leakage isn't.



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