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by Natsu 5734 days ago
> Do you know many people who say: "I won't run C applications because they are vulnerable to buffer overflows."

Unless your C program takes in input from advertisers and posts from people on the internet, I don't think that's a valid comparison.

Also, you say "very unlikely" but these attacks happen all the time. Most of them don't make the news, but they're pretty much an every day affair.