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Comment by sneak

11 hours ago

I think it's "don't use parsers written in unsafe languages".

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sneak

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fg137  10 hours ago

I think it's simpler: don't touch untrusted content unless/until you need to.

  • stavros  9 hours ago

    That's easy, and already done. Phones only touch untrusted content when they need to, it's just that they need to touch it immediately upon receipt

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