Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

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Meanwhile Dave from Accounting has password123 written on a post-it on the monitor.
- and only because the system forces users to renew passwords every year and this is his third year
  
  Year? It's like 90 days most places.
- I asked him to not do that and the sticky note is now under his keyboard.
Companies have until January 1, 2026, to create memory safety roadmaps.
Not really the same as dropping entirely
- A security feature of our system is that if you don't know what you're doing you'll break it so bad IT will be called right away.
Or risk what?
rusty software incoming

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