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Comment by blmarket

10 months 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  10 months ago

NoSQL? Sounds like it should’ve been caught by basic length checks on the database field where it was stored.

ncr100  10 months ago

That is awesome. Both the abuse and the fix.

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