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beatpanda on Jan 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous ...

I learned Python and Django and don't feel dangerous enough yet. How much C does it take to cause serious trouble?

wollw on Jan 13, 2012 [–]

Knowing how to loop over an array is enough to cause a buffer overflow if you aren't careful.

edit:

Or just using the standard "gets" function really. There's an example on StackOverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3026361/performing-simple...

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