What's the use of having private properties if you can alter them with reflection?

Question

I know it sounds like a stupid question, but how safe is your API if you can access private properties and change them?

Answer 1

What's the point of having locks on your door when people can just kick the door down? Using reflection requires more skill and more effort. For the most part the code is fine. Reflection doesn't work well in non full trust environments anyway.