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Validate your input, I guess (www.theguardian.com)
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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 48 points 1 year ago

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.