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The problem with memory safety bugs is that the capacity for unwanted behavior is much higher. This is why they are useful as security vulnerabilities when crafting exploits. They can turn your program into an unbounded one that can compute anything. It also means "uh, we just stored garbage data where there should be a key and now the entire encrypted blob is irrecoverable."


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