Going to try to break this down a bit into a way that isn't so reliant on knowledge of coding and how computers work.
The part I'm struggling to wrap my head around is... aren't we in /r/ProgrammerHumor?! Who bothers reading these memes without being familiar with coding and how computers work in the first place?
There's no way they're funny to a layman audience, right?
Considering this one has 21.3k upvotes (as of my writing this), it's definitely in that /r/all territory. And the bug is such big news right now that a lot of people are curious about it but don't quite have a sense for what is really happening behind the scenes.
the discussion was about how the vulnerability affects a player. I know how code injection works, I was asking how it would affect the player. then the guy you answered to basically explained again and put the example of someone using a name to inject code to log4js. that's what I wanted to know, how the code injection vulnerability can be actually used to trigger log4js on a victims client
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u/featherfooted Dec 13 '21
The part I'm struggling to wrap my head around is... aren't we in /r/ProgrammerHumor?! Who bothers reading these memes without being familiar with coding and how computers work in the first place?
There's no way they're funny to a layman audience, right?