A bunch of books dropped into the book drop, through the return slot (amazing enough in this age and joyful because my nostalgic Luddite long term environmentally-sound storage loving self likes the clunk the books make as they go in). As is my wont I check them over to make sure they don't need repair work done (no soddering irons required) and check titles for things of interest. Fuzzing!? What **&^ is Fuzzing. Has it to do with the fuzzy bear on the cover? Of course it does, because as I have know since I was small Fuzzy wazzy was a bear, and it turns out Fuzzy wazzy is now clogging up computer programs with with his fuzz (much random data - not to be confused the BIG data) to see when they will crash. It is a brute force test, looking for the vulnerable bits, don't you know. Though I am quite sure the grizzly on the book cover is really only interesting in catching that salmon jumping toward his open maw - no brute force required, just intelligent placement.
Fuzzing: Brute Force Venerability Discovery.
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