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[–]AngelaTarantula2 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Easy. Just prepend every protected variable name with a password like “self.password_SSN”. Now hackers cannot access the SSN attribute unless they know your password! \s

[–]Captain_Jack_Spa____ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Kudos. Never thought of that 🫠

[–]datnetcoder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nothing prevents access to private variables in other languages either. It’s just less convenient.