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user-inactivated  ·  3884 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How does the heartbleed attack work?

    Does anyone know how someone could ask for more characters than they typed in though?

You write a program to make heartbeat requests whose length field is greater than the length of the data.