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by karmakaze 1514 days ago
> [...] harden their code against random data [...]. It’s a hard problem to correctly parse complex structures that are incorrectly formatted. This is what led to unhandled exceptions and infinite loops.

I was expecting something much more interesting from the title, or mere posting of the story. It seems it was picked because of the cost/impact of the bug rather than the technical surprise/complexity.