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Nats says that the failure was triggered by a single piece of data in a flight plan that was wrongly input to its system by an unnamed airline.

It will be fascinating as the details of this emerge.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

As a reminder, if you can crash a program with malformed input, you're most of the way to finding a security hole allowing you to exploit that program with malformed input.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

My mum was definitely onto something.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S