• @Plopp
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    34 months ago

    Couldn’t it, though? 🤔

    IANAD and AFAIU, not in kernel mode. Things like trying to read non existing memory in kernel mode are supposed to crash the system because continuing could be worse.

      • @chaospatterns
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        4 months ago

        They could and clearly they should have done that but hindsight is 20/20. Software is complex and there’s a lot of places that invalid data could come in.