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Recently I came across the term “fuzzing” for intentionally damaging files to test the software that reads them. Most of the material I’ve found doesn’t provide a useful introduction; they assume that if you know the term, you already understand something about it. One good article is “Fuzzing — Mutation vs. Generation” on the Infosec website. According to that article, fuzzing denotes the response to file changes rather than the changes themselves, but I’m seeing the term used mostly in the latter sense.
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