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[Jack_Bread]

Playing Nightmare mode, I started up a Liberal Guardian to hopefully sway the populous. I got a hacker to get some juicy information that my writers could use for special editions, but for some reason, it always crashes whenever I get a message about my hacker doing something. It gives me an error whenever it happens, though.

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Sometimes it gives the same error with 'msg' instead of 'truehack'.
Any ideas?

[Yannanth]

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[Carlos Gustavos]

It appears there is no check for if the result message exceeds the size of the message buffer, so it can end up overwriting something else in memory. You can avoid this by shortening your hacker's name.

[dreadmullet]

How long is the person's name? I dived into the code, and I think if your hacker's name is longer than 27 characters, it could write past a char[80], doing crazy things to memory. Just to check, could you upload your save somewhere so I or someone else could find out if this is true?

[Akura]

How long is the person's name? I dived into the code, and I think if your hacker's name is longer than 27 characters, it could write past a char[80], doing crazy things to memory. Just to check, could you upload your save somewhere so I or someone else could find out if this is true?

That Guy Who's Good With Computer is 33 characters long, so it's probably doing that ? I am sadly less programming-saavy than I really wish I was.