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Cybersecurity failure is becoming a civilization-ending threat.

Microsoft and Google say that, empirically, 70% of computer security failures are memory safety failures.

Our solution is Dewdrop: hardware enforcement of the C language abstraction and more, including memory safety, at a modest cost.



"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."

— Alan Kay


"The thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it's secure, it's secure for everyone. And if it's insecure, it's insecure for everyone."

"Many soldiers deployed to Iraq became experts in concrete during their combat tours.... No other weapon or technology has done more to contribute to achieving strategic goals of providing security, protecting populations, establishing stability, and eliminating terrorist threats. This was most evident in the complex urban terrain of Baghdad, Iraq. Increasing urbanization and its consequent influence on global patterns of conflict mean that the US military is almost certain to be fighting in cities again in our future wars. Military planners would be derelict in their duty if they allowed the hard-won lessons about concrete learned on Baghdad’s streets to be forgotten."

[After going on for 7 paragraphs about the best methods of sweeping the streets of Philadelphia] "Some may think these trifling matters not worth minding or relating; but when they consider that tho' dust blown into the eyes of a single person, or into a single shop on a windy day, is but of small importance, yet the great number of the instances in a populous city, and its frequent repetitions give it weight and consequence, perhaps they will not censure very severely those who bestow some attention to affairs of this seemingly low nature. Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

— Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography


"Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.... The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water.... Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop, and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky."

— Great Master Dōgen, Actualizing The Fundamental Point,
"Dōgen Genjo Koan, Three Commentaries", Counterpoint, Berkeley