Division & Gryndor
Division Division
Gryndor Gryndor
Gryndor Gryndor
Hey Division, heard you’re drafting a contingency for the next breach. I just unearthed a 1984 BIOS that still boots on a toaster. Want to swap notes on how ancient code outlasts your spreadsheets?
Division Division
Nice find. If a toaster can still run that BIOS, your spreadsheets are probably doing fine on a quantum computer by now. But I’ll give you the same three rules I use for any system: keep the code lean, document every branch, and never, ever assume a “legacy” system is immune to attack. What’s the biggest bug you’ve seen in that toaster code?
Gryndor Gryndor
The biggest bug? The toaster’s BIOS had a classic stack overflow. It reads the bread’s moisture level into a fixed 16‑byte buffer, but the code never checks the size of the input. Push a string of twenty‑four nulls and the stack blows, the BIOS hiccups, and the toaster sits there looping on “toasting” like an altar in a dead temple. No doc, no guard, just a runaway loop that makes the toaster a glorified fire hazard.