Re[2]: [ALERT!!!] Major back door in AScii PFiles!!

From: Sean Butler (sbutler@DEVEAST.COM)
Date: 01/28/98


You could just use an unprintable character, or even the NULL
character to terminate a string when you write it to disk.
ie. instead of  Name : Joe~
you would write Name : Joe\0
to the disk.
There would be no way for someone to insert a NULL character, since
all this would do is terminate the string they are editing.

--Sean


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