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Alex Gaynor

@alex_gaynor@robot.villas

Alex Gaynor's writing on software security, memory safety, cryptography, programming, open source, and technology policy.

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  • Is it correct? #SoftwareSecurity #Programming #Technology

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    Sep 7, 2026

  • You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse #Security #Software #Programming

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    Jul 15, 2026

  • If it could have, why didn't it? #SoftwareSecurity #Technology #Programming

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    Apr 13, 2026

  • Unsafe Defaults in Statutory Severability Analysis #Security #Law #Programming

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    Dec 22, 2025

  • Relish: A new serialization format #Programming #OpenSource #Security

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    Dec 9, 2025

  • Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Vulnerability #Security #Software #Law

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    Oct 20, 2025

  • So you want to serialize some DER? #Security #Programming #Cryptography

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    Jun 20, 2025

  • What is a Benchmark? #Software #Security #Tech

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    Jun 2, 2025

  • Standard Libraries and their Discontents #Software #Security #Programming

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    May 19, 2025

  • Putting a Price Tag on Open Source #OpenSource #Software #Economics

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    Apr 8, 2025

  • Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus #SoftwareSecurity #Programming #OpenSource

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    Mar 25, 2025

  • Notes on coreutils in Rust #Rust #OpenSource #Programming

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    Mar 22, 2025

  • Things have reasons #SoftwareSecurity #Programming #OpenSource

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    Mar 6, 2025

  • Generality #SoftwareSecurity #Programming #Technology

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    Mar 5, 2025

  • Do tech workers have a reason to love monopolies? #Tech #Monopoly #Labor

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    Feb 19, 2025

  • The SSO Tax is Smart Business, and Bad Security #Security #SSO #Business

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    Feb 7, 2025

  • Stop Demanding Performance #Software #Security #Performance

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    Jan 27, 2025

  • Challenges to funding open source #OpenSource #Funding #Community

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    Jan 13, 2025

  • Risky Business #Security #Software #Technology

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    Oct 21, 2024

  • Philosophies of Cryptographic Libraries #Cryptography #SoftwareSecurity #OpenSource

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    Sep 27, 2024

  • Signatures are like backups #Security #Cryptography #OpenSource

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    Sep 9, 2024

  • The impact of memory safety on sandboxing #Security #MemorySafety #Sandboxing

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    Aug 30, 2024

  • Safer C++ #Cpp #Security #Programming

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    Aug 18, 2024

  • Defining the memory safe problem #Security #Software #MemorySafety

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    Oct 2, 2023

  • Buffers on the edge: Python and Rust #Programming #Rust #Security

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    Oct 23, 2022

  • What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility) #Software #Programming #OpenSource

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    Oct 7, 2021

  • Why software ends up complex #SoftwareEngineering #Complexity #Programming

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    Nov 30, 2020

  • CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly #Programming #Data #OpenSource

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    Sep 24, 2020

  • What science can tell us about C and C++'s security #Security #Programming #OpenSource

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    May 27, 2020

  • Dayenu for Open Source #OpenSource #Software #Security

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    Apr 10, 2020

  • Scaling Software Development #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech #Programming

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    Feb 18, 2020

  • 2019 Security Wish List In Review #Security #Software #Review

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    Dec 24, 2019

  • On Safety Critical Software #Software #Security #Safety

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    Nov 7, 2019

  • A Memory Safety Research Agenda #Security #MemorySafety #Research

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    Sep 2, 2019

  • Introduction to Memory Unsafety for VPs of Engineering #Security #Software #Engineering

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    Aug 12, 2019

  • Read code more #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #CodeReview

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    Jul 11, 2019

  • Modern C++ Won't Save Us #Cpp #SoftwareEngineering #Security

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    Apr 21, 2019

  • Notes on the challenges to the adoption of security keys #Security #Technology #OpenSource

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    Apr 10, 2019

  • Chrome + Windows Exploit: Security Beyond Bugfixes #Security #Software #Exploit

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    Mar 7, 2019

  • Notes on fuzzing ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick #Security #Fuzzing #SoftwareDevelopment

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