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Everyone will be wondering what the 8 characters are and the BBC fail to mention it, so here we go: “http://:” http://:” (without the quotes) [1] [1] http://v
by djm_ 11y ago
Everyone will be wondering what the 8 characters are and the BBC fail to mention it, so here we go:
“http://:” http://:” (without the quotes) [1]
[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-skype-and-once-theyre-in-your-chat-history-the-app-cant-start/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-s...
- elisee 11y agoLooks amusingly similar to a bug found by fuzzing in rust-url (the url parser used by Mozilla's Servo) less than a month ago. https://github.com/servo/rust-url/pull/108 https://github.com/servo/rust-url/pull/108 (Not implying the two are related in any way)
- LiquidFlux 11y agoAndroid, iOS and Windows apparently fall victim, OSX does not. Clearing local logs does not resolve the issue, you'll redownload the logs from the server on launch, the culprit message needs to be deleted.
- sancha_ 11y agoIs this an article summarizer bot?
- LiquidFlux 11y agoNope, I tend to go straight to the comments to HN and Reddit threads for context, criticisms, the likely important relevant information.
- abarringer 11y agoMy skype crashes on OSX when I try it. I have Skype 7.8(388) on OS X 10.10.3. My skype is now constantly crashing even though I haven't sent that in at least 10 minutes. Crashes about every three seconds. Edit: upgraded to skype build 391 and it no longer crashes.