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by redteddy23 5411 days ago
Interesting that the language of choice is Delphi. Presumably because it is a teaching language and easy to pickup quickly.
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I can answer this

The reason delphi is used is because the majority of this stuff is for Windows. Delphi has a LOT of stuff that makes development way way faster than say c++ when you are dealing with windows -- and the majority of these HAVE to use something lower level because of 'interesting' security implications that you can't utilize in stuff like the CLR (via c#)

Not surprised. It's clear the ones who engage in criminal activity are not the smartest hackers in any given community.
I don't get your point Delphi is used by less smart people?