Are private members really more “secure” in Java?

Question

Learning Java I was sometimes taught to use the private access modifier so as not to expose \"sensitive information\" to other classes, as if this could open a legi

Answer 1

I think the meaning of "security" by your instructor was not about keeping hackers out, but rather keeping bugs out. By making everything as private as possible, you limit the ways that one class can mess with another class without it knowing. This is an example of Modular Programming.