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Saint Etherleak, Who Stuffed Packets With Secrets
Patron of network drivers written in a hurry, packets that are too short, and everything left behind in buffers.
Life
In January 2003 researchers at @stake found that many network card drivers, to pad Ethernet frames to the minimum length, filled them with whatever they found in memory instead of zeros. Every small packet left with a surprise filling: fragments of earlier traffic, or of kernel memory.
Prayer
O Saint Etherleak, who stuffs packets with whatever comes to hand, teach our drivers the worth of the zero byte. Amen.
How to celebrate
Celebrated by zeroing a buffer before using it, in memory of all those who did not.
Short packet, generous stuffing.