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Comment by macintux

7 years ago

You're not wrong. AgentME is correct, that crashes can be exploitable, but it is definitely more dangerous for software to continue after its data is corrupted.

The Erlang programming language, in fact, is built around the idea that as soon as you see data you don't expect, you crash, and an external process will start you back up in a known good state.

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