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I don't understand this response. Nothing really stops that, regardless of implementation language. It's why we have an entire bodged and mostly ineffective AV industry, as well as a slightly less bodged and partially effective endpoint monitoring/detection industry.

Runtime mitigations exist to mitigate some of the latent risk associated with programming in unsafe programming languages. We use them because they're our best known approach to continuing to use those languages without letting script kiddies own us like it's 1993.



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