Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
https://www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-c-for-rust-and-your-privacy-benefits/
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Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀
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