7.2. Validation
Validation refers to the checking and rechecking of user input. One of the tricks that Bart learns in bad-guy school is how to exploit weaknesses in the guard, especially guards in Internet fortresses. In this scenario, Bart doesn't try to bypass Gwen the guard; he tries to trick her into doing something she shouldn't do. There are two ruses Bart will use to try to trick Gwen into becoming his willing accomplice.
In the first approach, Bart tries to overwhelm Gwen with large amounts of data, hoping to overwrite her allocated memory buffers. Bart sends much more data to Gwen than she is expecting. If Gwen doesn't check for this data excess, Bart can turn Gwen into his personal zombie. Gwen will now do anything Bart asks! And since ...
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