Does the Java 'final' keyword actually improve security?

Question

While there are many reasons to use the \'final\' keyword in Java, one of the ones I keep hearing over and over again is that it makes your code more secure. While this seem

Answer 1

I imagine what someone would mean when they said that final makes your code more secure is that it prevents future developers from coming along and modifying values that are not meant to be modified, or inheriting from classes which are not designed to be extended (and causing unpredictable results in the process). It doesn't have anything to do (directly) with authentication.