WhatsApp BO critical security vulnerability

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On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 22:45:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 22:42:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Given the frequency and severity of buffer overflow and other 
>> memory-related bugs, people need a serious wakeup call to 
>> migrate away from languages that do not enforce bounds 
>> checking...
>
>
> And this is why I *never* use dmd's -release or -boundscheck 
> switches. Just not worth the risk of taking out those checks.

Depends on what you are doing, I always have those switches 
turned on, it's not worth the performance hit. Wouldn't be 
surprised if it had something to do with data received over the 
network. I always see people write code with assumptions that the 
data will be valid. A good assumption would be that it can't be 
trusted.