I Wish For Int Max Wishes

Integer overflow Underflow binary Byte Coding tricks Unsigned integer Data types computer science hacking Bit manipulation

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I Wish For Int Max Wishes

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Classic unsigned 8-bit integer overflow hack! The genie says "3 wishes left" but our clever programmer wishes for "0 wishes left" causing the counter to underflow from 0 to 255. It's the digital equivalent of rolling your car's odometer backward, except you're exploiting the genie's primitive variable type implementation instead of committing odometer fraud. Somewhere, a CS professor is using this as an example of why input validation matters.

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