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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)


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A similar technique is used in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedruns in order to get arbitrary code execution via Stale Reference Manipulation. At the time, I was in an airport dealing with the aftermath of Air Canada's IT system falling the heck over and the sheer feeling of relief I felt was better than drugs. This architecture does have a strange advantage to it though: assuming a perfectly spherical cow, adequate network latency, and sheer luck this does make UDP a bit more reliable than it should be otherwise.

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