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Re:The Equifax Breach Exposes America's Identity Crisis by daxelrod on Sunday September 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#15212669)
Programs in C and C++ can still execute data as code with buffer overflows. They're not a panacea either.
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Re:The Equifax Breach Exposes America's Identity Crisis by ithkuil on Sunday September 10, 2017 @03:46PM (#15213948)
That's right, but the OP did mention how that issue is addressed in c/c++:

> so you can't use straightforward NoExecute bits (provided by hardware and supported by OS loaders to disallow calling into dynamically allocated memory

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