Subj : [$] Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Sep 15 2025 20:30:09

[$] Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications

Date:
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:15:06 +0000

Description:
Brooke Deuson is the developer behind Trafficking Free Tomorrow , a nonprofit 
organization that
produces free software to help law enforcement combat human trafficking. She 
is
a survivor of human trafficking herself.
She spoke at RustConf 2025 about her
mission, and why she chose to write her anti-trafficking software in Rust.
Interestingly, it has nothing to do with Rust's lifetime-analysis-based 
memory-safety 
instead, her choice was motivated by the difficulty she faces getting police
departments to actually use her software. The fact that Rust is statically
linked and capable of cross compilation by default makes deploying Rust 
software
in those environments easier.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1036916/


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