Validate your input, I guess
Validate your input, I guess
www.theguardian.com UK air traffic control failure: what caused it, and who will have to pay?
We look at what lies behind hundreds of thousands of people having their flights cancelled or delayed
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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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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.
52 0 ReplyAh, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;
36 1 ReplyMy mum was definitely onto something.
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Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?
24 0 ReplyWho would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S
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