Hyrum's Law
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Hyrum's Law
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#2What are some fun or unusual examples of Hyrum’s Law that you’ve run into? Were you the user, inadvertently depending on some implementation detail? Or were users depending on your implementation’s details?
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#3One approach to guard against Hyrum’s Law is GREASE (aka “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility” used in the TLS 1.3 protocol) i.e. behavior randomization to avoid inadvertent dependencies on unspecified behavior: https://textslashplain.com/2020/05/18/a-bit-of-grease-keeps-...
What are other approaches?
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#6https://xkcd.com/1172/
Yes, that is in the body of the article.
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#7What are some fun or unusual examples of Hyrum’s Law that you’ve run into? Were you the user, inadvertently depending on some implementation detail? Or were users depending on your implementation’s details?
I think Windows is the epitome of following Hyrum's Law decades before Hyrum's Law came into being :)
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13632600649293620...
I guess the linux kernel still supprorting binaries from ages ago might be too.
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#8One approach to guard against Hyrum’s Law is GREASE (aka “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility” used in the TLS 1.3 protocol) i.e. behavior randomization to avoid inadvertent dependencies on unspecified behavior: https://textslashplain.com/2020/05/18/a-bit-of-grease-keeps-... What are other approaches?
Telling people who depended on probably internal behavior that wasn’t an explicit part of your contract to fuck off when they whine about you changing something.
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#9One approach to guard against Hyrum’s Law is GREASE (aka “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility” used in the TLS 1.3 protocol) i.e. behavior randomization to avoid inadvertent dependencies on unspecified behavior: https://textslashplain.com/2020/05/18/a-bit-of-grease-keeps-... What are other approaches?
> “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility”
This should get a re-submit on HN (0 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149534 4 years ago)
I wonder if it would allow for easter eggs again. Would the fabled story between Larry Osterman and Raymond Chen's Exchange POP3 server easter egg fall within GREASE - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...
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#10One approach to guard against Hyrum’s Law is GREASE (aka “Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility” used in the TLS 1.3 protocol) i.e. behavior randomization to avoid inadvertent dependencies on unspecified behavior: https://textslashplain.com/2020/05/18/a-bit-of-grease-keeps-... What are other approaches?
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