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You're right, but you cannot accuse the entire language of being insecure, ultimately it's the responsibility of the developer.

Also you can't always say we don't use C only for security reasons, as other languages also have their security issues. There are many modern ways to avoid those flaws. Like someone answered, it boils down to a matter of development cost.

I'm also quite skeptical when people always rise the objection of security when writing software. Security is not so simple, and so far it's its own specialty, and pretending that it's worth it to make things slower and that the security gain is actually there, is not really completely accurate.

Security is almost a post 9/11 paranoia knee jerk reaction.



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