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This Will Cut You: Go's Sharper Edges
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Summary
Thomas Shadwell talks about how distinct, exploitable misuse patterns arise in software languages, and through example in Go – in particular a quietly prevalent and worryingly effective denial of service attack on Go systems affecting the Go toolchain itself – hopes to begin a greater discourse on the language's distinct security characteristics.
Bio
Thomas Shadwell works as an application security engineer at Twitch.
About the conference
Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Jul 04, 2017