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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Buffer overflows were last seen on the OWASP top 10 list in 2004. Favoring of anything else over C for most things is a pretty obvious reason why. A language change destroyed an entire class of bugs.