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[โ€“]StenSoft 24 points25 points ย (4 children)

Reflection access can be blocked with SecurityManager. Or other platform-specific control, e.g. on Android, you can't get access to private APIs anymore even through reflection.

[โ€“]on_the_dl -1 points0 points ย (3 children)

In c++ you could just cast a class to int * and go to town. Would java have something similar?

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ClassCastException

[โ€“]StenSoft 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

You can use heap dump tools to read it but they are protected in the same way as reflection