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you asked for a teacup and poured in the ocean, so now the ocean is running your program.

means a bug where data written to a fixed-size memory block spills past its edges, overwriting whatever memory came next.

from comes from 1970s systems programming, where memory buffers were literal fixed-size boxes; the term became infamous after the 1988 morris worm exploited one to crash the early internet.

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