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		tedunangst on April 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses... Buggy firmware with edge cases is putting it mildly. I suppose a checksum of 0000 or ffff is technically an edge case, but not all that uncommon, and a pretty popular thing to get wrong.

gonzo on April 2, 2017 [–]

Even the standards got it wrong. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1624

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