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Google turns to Rust to remedy Android vulnerabilities – Techradar
Android developers inside Google have been working to add support for Rust for over a year
Google has greenlighted the use of the Rust programming language in Androids low-level system-code in order to curb the growing number of memory-based security vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system.
In a post in the Google Security blog, members of the Android development team list their efforts to detect, fix, and mitigate the memory safety bugs. Despite their efforts, these vulnerabilities make up about 70% of Androids high severity security vulnerabilities.
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