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TL; DR for the first part of the story: Developer discovers ASCII. You're storing bits and you panic about hackers when the bits translated to ASCII display a
by netsharc 2y ago
TL; DR for the first part of the story: Developer discovers ASCII.
You're storing bits and you panic about hackers when the bits translated to ASCII display a URL? Come on...
- genewitch 2y agoIt means that someone was using checkbox status to encode ascii which isn't at all obvious unless you "happen" to convert the raw bytes to ascii. i'm guessing BSON when output as ascii doesn't have such shenanigans.