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BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security

Microsoft Israel R&D Center · talk · Watch on YouTube

Security & hackingOperating systems & kernelsC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

David Weston's BlueHat IL 2023 talk traces the evolution of Windows security and previews Windows 11 and hardware advances. It ends with upcoming changes such as Rust in the kernel and fonts, signed binaries and adminless Windows.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the primary source for Microsoft's Rust adoption and its reasoning on TPM and security requirements.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “its about an hour long but much of it is very interesting.”

    Hour-long announcement including adminless Windows

    senectus1, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe Rust”

  2. “The speaker covers a bunch of areas and the final part of the talk (around 10 minutes) is about Microsoft introducing Rust in some self-contained areas in Windows.”

    Rust in font parser and Win32k, plus killing bug classes

    nindalf, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “Microsoft is to enable Rust use for Windows 11 kernel”

  3. “There's a pretty great talk from Bluehat a few days ago that goes into why Microsoft is doing this”

    Explains why Microsoft requires modern security CPUs

    Hawxy, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: windows 11, rust, tpm, memory safety, microsoft

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