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>You need a problem to have a solution to it. What do you consider to be the problem here? > >This is essentially something that can be expressed in relatively
by geezerjay 9y ago
>You need a problem to have a solution to it. What do you consider to be the problem here?
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>This is essentially something that can be expressed in relatively few bytes that expands to something much larger.
That seems to be the problem. I mean, if an object expands to something much larger to the point that it crashes services just by the sheer volume of the resources it takes... That is pretty much the definition of an attack vector of a denial-of-service attack.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThere is a problem here, but it's not with data. It's with the service. Being able to express trees efficiently in a data format is an useful feature, but it requires the code processing it not to be lazy and assume people will never create pathological tree structures.