That's one way of looking at it; another is that the common bugs due to underflow with small numbers themselves create more exploitable vulnerabilities. Anyway,

That's one way of looking at it; another is that the common bugs due to underflow with small numbers themselves create more exploitable vulnerabilities. Anyway, I think your point of view is valid, but it will have to become much closer to a consensus before Java considers changing the status quo and adding unsigned types to the core language.