Comment by mikewarot

What drives me nuts is the fact that memory safety actually has little bearing on Computer Security at large. If we had multi-level secure OSs*, with capabilities based facilities available to the user, a lost pointer would just crash the program in question, and that's it... zero side effects, ever.

I'm hoping that the next release of Sculpt, Genode's user-facing OS release, will offer this, as promised in their road map for their realse 26.08.[1] I'm hopeful that we can finally drop all these stupid layers of cruft trying to patch fundamentally insecure operating systems.

Tannenbaum was right, in the end, and Linus was wrong.[2]

[1] https://genode.org/about/road-map

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...

[*] "Multi-level secure operating system" is the required magic phrase to allow finding articles on this subject through search engines.