Well, I think people forget history a bit sometimes. For 20 years or so the most common exploit in any system was a buffer overflow, often in string manipulatio

Well, I think people forget history a bit sometimes. For 20 years or so the most common exploit in any system was a buffer overflow, often in string manipulation. I think we're finally getting past that, but C's lack of abstraction over string pointers was a major, major problem and even today if I was writing a secure system I would choose C++ if only to use the std::string class.