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Re:Sshole by Cakez0r on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:56AM (#50380735)
Choosing * instead of NULL is indeed very fishy coincidence. Of all the return values they could've picked... What are the odds?
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Re:Sshole by procaryote on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:01PM (#50385768)
Also the coincidence of 3 weeks later adding "oh, no passwords above 256 chars" making it easy to trigger
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Re:Sshole by Arch485 on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:00AM (#50390388)
About 1 in 256 I'd reckon
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