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Chrome's PDF reader has arbitrary code execution flaw

Mike Shepherd
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A tiny error

"The flaw looks like it is down to a tiny error by Chrome's developers..."

There are no "tiny errors" in today's computers. If you plan to get up on your hind legs and crow that you're taking over the world, you need to be careful with errors of any "size".

If this flaw is so insignificant, why is it worthy of an article about it, particularly one which appears determined to play it down?

I think it was Tony Hoare who wrote that "A programmer who uses assertions while testing and turns them off during production is like a sailor who wears a life vest while drilling on shore and takes it off at sea". Maybe Google could do with such basic notions of software quality.

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