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Re: Code of Conduct: picking up



On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:34:24PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >«Malware, short for malicious software, is software used to disrupt
> 
> See. This isn’t software. It is a perfectly valid string of
> Unicode characters.

While I personally find this cute hack hilarious, this defence is a bit
shaky. It'd be like saying SQL injection is just a valid string of
Unicode characters, or that buffer overflows are just lots of valid
data.

"Valid" is a subjective term :)


Cheers,
  Paul

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