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> but those are not safety issues.

there are not memory safety issues. But they definitely can lead to security issues with some sort of confused deputy attack.

For example a capability based system that relied on just this form of memory safety would be pointless.

Of course this can be mitigated by adding version counters to objects and object selectors.




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