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C/Ragel bug was the cause of Cloudbleed, and the reason why Cloudflare switched to Rust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed




I think I know the author of the bug :) But I use a C dialect that has bounds-checking. Abstractions leak anyway (see Meltdown/Spectre). https://meltdownattack.com/




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