• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    At some point the Linux kernel will be patched to detect and terminate forking attacks, and sadly all these memes will be dead.

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      7 months ago

      I doubt it. It’s the halting problem. There are perfectly legitimate uses for similar things that you can’t detect if it’ll halt or not prior to running it. Maybe they’d patch it to avoid this specific string, but you’d just have to make something that looks like it could do something but never halts.