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I find the current state of affairs in programming deplorable. As it is, a single tiny system program with an unchecked buffer size can often be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. (Let that sink in for a second.) Your operating system (whatever it is) is so fragile that a single coding error, a typo, could allow anyone to do anything they wanted to on your machine. That's unacceptable. And all too common.

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