• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w...>
• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:47:25 -0500

On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 21:36 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> 
> [...]

>   Those who remember the
> Billion Laughs exploit may also remember that my first-gen "Lark"
> processor sailed through it, 

hah fabulous.

Billion Laughs ended the possibility of having DTDs on the Web, alas,
even though a corresponding vulnerability existed in JavaScript.




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