Explore the implications of global variables on software security and reliability, examining potential vulnerabilities such as race conditions, data races, and unintended side-channel attacks, and proposing strategies for mitigating these risks through proper design and validation techniques.  

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Global variables can introduce significant security and reliability risks to software systems due to their potential for causing race conditions data races unintended sidechannel attacks and other vul... View the full answer