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zamalek on April 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software...

    B8 01 00 00 00    mov  eax, 1   ; never reached: set result to 1 (fail)

This is why you should always initialize variables to "fail" in secure code, although in this case it probably wouldn't have helped.

MichaelGG on April 25, 2016 [–]

Would not the compiler be free to change around things during optimization? Fail secure is more a protection against logic bugs in your code.

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