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... that that is how we get nice DOS issues because of greedy regular expressions that where not checked



To be even more correct, writing your own regexps is also how we get nice DOS issues because of greedy regular expressions that were not checked.

To be even more fully correct, we get nice DOS issues because we aren't using re2 or similar tools that don't have exponential backtracking.




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