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by gtsop 703 days ago
Why even do that? We have virtualization, they could emulate real clients and networks of clients. This particular bug would have been prevented for sure
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Yeah I thought maybe the VM thing might not catch the bug for some reason, but it seems like the natural thing to do. Spin up VM, see if there's a crash. I heard the technical reason had something to do with a file being full of nulls, but that sort of thing you should catch.

Honestly, the most generous excuse I can think of is that CS were informed of some sort of vulnerability that would have profound consequences immediately, and that necessitated a YOLO push. But even that doesn't seem too likely.