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Should propably be required reading for every programmer and especially for those that work with memory unsafe languages. With a side of modern mitigation techniques.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow (See buffer overflow protection)




A simple compare and contrast between C and zig/rust/D might be interesting - or even golang for that matter (the idea being that code could be reasonably similar, and yet somewhat idiomatic - and illustrate how the C code is exploitable, but the safe language version isn't - except when made to be).




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