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Nope, and what I'm actually doing is fuzzing the input to this function, which is a common breaking technique.

You see, programmers tend to go around only using functions exactly as they were intended. Hackers come along and then use them in unintended ways, which causes bugs. The way to prevent this is to think like a hacker and try to use your code in unintended ways and then try to prevent them.




You say 'hackers' like it's a bad thing. As a reminder, this is "Hacker News".




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