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		jl6 on Aug 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing u... Is the scope just well-formed strings or would you consider adding binary nasties like null bytes, mal-encoded characters, or even just newlines on their own? What about XML billion laughs strings, or parser-busting very long runs of parentheses?

eli on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

I've definitely seen NUL bytes in what's supposed to be a text string break many tools.

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