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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:53:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: An unusual question...
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Hi Chris...

> It sounds to me like you're trying to pull off a classic buffer
> overrun and remote code execution exploit, in someone else's Python
> program. And all I have to say is.... Good luck to you.

Talking of nefarious usage...

I wonder what this would do left unchecked on a current machine and current Python install...

###

global somestring
somestring = " "

while 1:
        #print somestring
        somestring = somestring + " "

###



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