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Comment by blmarket

5 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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myflash13  5 months ago

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

ncr100  5 months ago

That is awesome. Both the abuse and the fix.

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