Xe Iaso
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Their wordsFilesystem reads in that case are 10 nanoseconds at most (the filesystem cache helps so much here) but doing any network roundtrip is 10 milliseconds at minimum. It's at least a million times slower because of how reality works.
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Their wordsUsing time for this sounds boring, but time synchronization is unironically one of the most complicated things in computing.
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C is the only programming language where this kind of memory-safety vulnerability regularly happens.
Their wordsThis is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen.
↗"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happensxeiaso.net