Comment by kazinator

To completely eliminate the possibility of ransomware attack, you need an incredibly locked down platform, and users who are impervious to social engineering.

Vulnerabilities to ransomware (and other forms of malware) can be perpetrated without a single bad pointer being dereferenced.

For instance, a memory-safe e-mail program can automatically open an attachment, and the memory-safe application which handles the attachment can blindly run code embedded in the document in a leaky sandbox.

There is an incredible amount of infrastructure out there that depends on C. Embedded devices, mobile devices, desktops, servers. Network stacks, telephony stacks, storage, you name it. Encryption, codecs, ...

Sky is falling would mean all of it would be falling down so badly that, for instance, you would have about a 50% chance of connecting a server that is more than four hops away.