What is the security risk of object reflection?

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Published on 2010-06-09T03:22:11Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 3:32 UTC
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So after a few hours of workaround the limitation of Reflection being currently disabled on the Google App Engine, I was wondering if someone could help me understand why object reflection can be a threat. Is it because I can inspect the private variables of a class or are there any other deeper reasons?

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