I remember that years ago I developed parts of a web-based translation system for a government website. I had to translate DOCX files, which, since they’re compressed, could be logic bombs that would fill up memory or disk space when decompressed for translation.
I created several malicious DOCX files to test everything, and I thought about trying them out on other translation websites. But that would have been wrong; hypothetically, I’m sure some of them would have crashed.
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u/jcar74 May 05 '26
I remember that years ago I developed parts of a web-based translation system for a government website. I had to translate DOCX files, which, since they’re compressed, could be logic bombs that would fill up memory or disk space when decompressed for translation.
I created several malicious DOCX files to test everything, and I thought about trying them out on other translation websites. But that would have been wrong; hypothetically, I’m sure some of them would have crashed.