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Use AppleScripts to generate web pages
Authored by: grrl_geek on Dec 23, '03 01:03:06PM

I'm not a security expert by any means, but I can think of an example. Some scripts that allow input (and aren't coded correctly) are vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploit. From what I understand, this is when Mr. Evil Guy sends more data than expected, and then is able overwrite some of the system memory with his code. Exactly how one would do this I'm not sure, but I know it can be done. Is done, all the time.

It's easy to write bad code, and often hard to see what the problem is with it. If there's one thing I've learned about the internet, it's I'm good with computers, but there are a whole lot of people who are better than I. If a good product like Apache has things set up a particular way, there's a reason, and I should understand that reason before I mess with it.

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