alt Hacker News> What is the purported lesson we should have learned?
Not to automatically execute things within data that we have been sent.
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sneak • yesterday at 8:12 PM
I think it's "don't use parsers written in unsafe languages".
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> What is the purported lesson we should have learned?
Not to automatically execute things within data that we have been sent.
I think it's "don't use parsers written in unsafe languages".
The subtle lesson, which we won't learn is [astronaut meme] all communication is potentially remote code execution. This isn't a computer thing, it's in the inherent nature of how communication works for us too. You can be more or less careful, but you can't eliminate the problem entirely or else communicating ceases to be effective.