I wonder what that guy has done to get and keep such an elite tech job, complete with year-long vacations, and doesn't even have to 'pretend' to use his own products.
"A prison term "would send a powerful deterrent message to the rest of the industry,” Chutkow said."
What a total crock of shit. He is a scapegoat. Guilty yes, but if you want to send a powerful deterrent message to the rest of the automotive industry you go after the managing directors and C-level employees and put them into prison for a while and then you'll see ethical business practices.
At that scale something like Ceph would be more reasonable. Just because ZFS can handle those filesystem sizes doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best tool for the job. There's a reason why all big players like Google, Amazon and Facebook go for the horizontal scaling approach.
Nice overview of the pitfalls of C-parsers, their hardening, a presentation of Rust advantages, parser combinators, the nom crate, its usage, the application to VLC and an intrusion detector, the integration with those complex existing C codebase, fuzzing and a few ideas to improve rust for more security.
For anyone who has even read a bit on infrastructure, this is a no brainer. The problem with alternative transportation is you have to go all in to see the benefits. Half assing it won't work. But half assing it is what a lot of places do, and then they say "see, ridership didn't increase, going further is just a waste of money."