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If you guess a wrong address, the process crashes.

With a fork-based server, you don't care much about that. Every time you connect, you get a fresh new process - with the same addresses as the older copies even.

So brute-forcing those is more viable than a browser where you probably won't have more than 1 or 2 attempts per user.



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