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by sebastien_b 1633 days ago
I doubt it even went that far - given the size the story mentions (500,000 characters, but isn't clear if they tried smaller), my thinking is the programmer didn't make any checks whatsoever and just thought "no one will type in crazy-large values here, and even if they do it'll just truncate on display" (if that) without consideration on how it might affect memory.