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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by caf on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @06:15AM (#13809582)
The bug here was a lack of writing state!
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by yjgyhj on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @07:40AM (#13809885)
Sorry for being unclear. In my timezone it's pretty late.

If there was not state, the coder wouldn't had tried to set it. I don't think a language needs to have the `=` operator easy and close at hand. Had that not been the case, this bug (and oh so many others) would never had existed.

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