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Is it a program written by humans and have parts that accept user input or network input? then yes.



By that definition, pretty much all software has "poor security" regardless of language. I don't think your definition of "poor security" is proportionate or useful.


> By that definition, pretty much all software has "poor security" regardless of language.

My definition of "poor" is that it must have a babysitter to maintain and patch it. Whether or not this is the case depends on the attack surface, which of course depends on the complexity of what it does. A system that has no attack surface can be very buggy without having poor security. But an internet connected machine with modern windows/posix OS that does some useful work will likely need a security patch already within the first couple of years - and that I consider pretty poor.




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