Jim & Mary Ronback opined:It is not clear how an attacker could exploit the lack of automatic garbage collection to contribute to a security breach.
I am hard put to find an example of a language feature which makes a system more secure but less safe or vice versa, in any context. Can anyone else think of one?
Not 100%, but consider automatic garbage collection. Tends to make a system *more secure*, because it's associated with languages that avoid pointers with all their evilness. Tends to make a system less safe, because if the garbage collection occurs at the wrong time (e.g., when you're spitting out radiation for a medical instrument), it could cause the system to temporarily freeze.
--Jeremy
I would agree with you if you replaced "*more secure*" with "*more reliable*".
Jim
