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Re:Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account by axod on Monday December 28, 2009 @12:39PM (#1018936)
Similar issue a while back with SSL certs wasn't there. When will people learn how to deal with null bytes properly :/
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Re:Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account by DannoHung on Monday December 28, 2009 @02:39PM (#1019199)
I could similarly ask, "When will people learn that null bytes are a terrible way to terminate data?"

But that ship sailed eons ago.

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Re:Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account by messel on Monday December 28, 2009 @04:12PM (#1019384)
After mangling a number string operations (and the program memory space) when first learning C I realized how terrible they could be. If I can mistakenly destroy my memory space, what would a malicious mind do with such a thing?
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Re:Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account by axod on Monday December 28, 2009 @07:17PM (#1019743)
This is a very good reason to use a language with built in memory management.
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