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Validate your input, I guess (www.theguardian.com)

Nats says that the failure was triggered by a single piece of data in a flight plan that was wrongly input to its system by an unnamed airline.

It will be fascinating as the details of this emerge.

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

As a reminder, if you can crash a program with malformed input, you're most of the way to finding a security hole allowing you to exploit that program with malformed input.

[-] paper_clip@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

[-] bobbytables@artemis.camp 8 points 1 year ago

My mum was definitely onto something.

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?

[-] Chrisos@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

Who would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S

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