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by jamestnz 1994 days ago
This reminds me of a fun story about another unusual failure mode involving some supposedly valid (but highly specific) input content: Where listening to a certain podcast in your Mazda will reliably crash the car's stereo system.

"The Roman Mars Mazda Virus" https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm

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That one was wonderful. C programmers would stop at the mention of '%' and go "aha!", but no!