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48 characters enough to crash most Linux distros, says sysadmin

posted onOctober 4, 2016
by l33tdawg

A sysadmin has developed 48 characters of code that he claims can crash most popular Linux distributions.

Andrew Ayer, a Linux administrator and founder of SSLMate, explains his code works by crashing systemd, an open-source init system that is used to boot up most Linux distributions.  Users can choose to run systemd as the first processes a Linux distribution executes upon boot-up, otherwise known as Process ID 1.

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