Validate your input, I guess

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/uk-air-traffic-control-failure-what-caused-it-and-who-will-have-to-pay

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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fubo@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 3y

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.

paper_clip@kbin.social · 35 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

bobbytables@artemis.camp · 8 pts · 3y

My mum was definitely onto something.

Morphit@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 3y

Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?

Chrisos@ttrpg.network · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Who would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S

railsdev@programming.dev · 0 pts · 3y
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