On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 19:48:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Even though in practice, having an application abort because of > a null pointer can also become an issue, e.g., if a malicious > outsider is able to trigger that condition consistently, it > could be exploited in a DoS attack. Division by zero also crashes the program but nobody makes a big deal out of it.