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by blmarket 498 days ago
This and several other abuse cases forced my previous work to use code pointers to count 'characters' for user's nickname / status messages. No one wanted to download 9MB simply browsing other users.
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_1tem 497 days ago
NoSQL? Sounds like it should’ve been caught by basic length checks on the database field where it was stored.
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ncr100 498 days ago
That is awesome. Both the abuse and the fix.
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