> Where desktop apps have exploit categories like “double free”, “stack smash”, “use after free” etc, web apps fix those but then re-introduce their own very si

> Where desktop apps have exploit categories like “double free”, “stack smash”, “use after free” etc, web apps fix those but then re-introduce their own very similar mistakes: SQL injection, XSS, XSRF, header injection, MIME confusion, and so on. All of these are pretty thoroughly solved by picking tools that don’t let you shoot yourself in the foot, and SQL injection isn’t remotely a web app thing. (The others are far less severe than RCE, anyway, as they only affect the one app. I guess the argument here is that the web platform isn’t yet optimal? Work is always continuing to improve security – take Content-Security-Policy, for example, which mitigates every type of exploit mentioned even if you do everything else wrong – and if you think it can’t work out, point out a real alternative.)