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Along similar lines, this morning I was thinking how wonderful it would be if whatever interfaces exist between the ship's computer and the rest of the 0x10c ga
by Niten 15y ago
Along similar lines, this morning I was thinking how wonderful it would be if whatever interfaces exist between the ship's computer and the rest of the 0x10c game world are rich enough to make security vulnerabilities in players' DCPU-16 code a real concern. Imagine disabling an opponent's ship by exploiting a buffer overflow in a custom communications protocol implementation, for instance...
- lloeki 15y agoThat very well may be part of the game: https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/187474819980328962 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/187474819980328962
- seanp2k2 15y agoThis. Also, if it gets one kid interested in asm/ low-level stuff, it's worth it IMO. We keep abstracting, but we can gain so much by going back to the hardware. Also, exploiting in general is fascinating to me, and I hope this pushes it more mainstream.