&gt; Personal opinion, people are generally way too concerned about buffer overflows in C<p>My only concern about buffer overflows in C is that memory error continue to happen in software that I depend upon in my daily life.<p>Chrome, Firefox, Linux, OpenSSL, all these things suffer memory errors that compromise my security.  Anyone doing security work in C in 2016 is in my opinion committing malpractice and putting user&#x27;s at risk because their ego&#x27;s can&#x27;t take not fiddling bits by hand.