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Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters 'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety May 1st 2023, 02:03, by EditorDavid Phoronix reports: With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software... to further enhance Linux/open-source security. "[B]ecause it'