Ok, so that example maybe was not perfect. So what? Many apps nowadays talk with remote APIs. Imagine a twitter client, a SCADA app, pretty much anything nowada

Ok, so that example maybe was not perfect. So what? Many apps nowadays talk with remote APIs. Imagine a twitter client, a SCADA app, pretty much anything nowadays, instead of nitpicking. Btw when you use libraries written in C that very much the same as communicating over the network from your app. Same process, same address space. Also note: local files may also be rigged... Other languages protect for whole classes of vulnerabilities with negligible costs. About the reasonable security: http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-news/critical-git-vulnerability-allows-for-remote-code-execution/ http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-ne... https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html (Kudos to the curl authors for this nice overview!)