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how much should we tolerate closed-source programs?

24 2022-06-02 14:52

On 1 January 2022, a bug was reported for Microsoft Exchange systems where email delivery would fail. An internal malware scanner (enabled by default since 2013) used the date and time as a signed 32-bit integer. The integer would change during the new year to 2,201,010,001 (with the first two digits representing the year), surpassing the maximum value for this data type.

This is the type of shit you get with industry leading enterprise grade proprietary software

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