When Gal Elbaz came across a modest GIF parser sitting in a remote corner of GitHub, he wasn’t exactly looking for trouble. But he found it. What was so troublesome about this parser in particular? It wasn’t popular, it was created by some unknown programmer, and it didn’t have any extraordinary qualities. Except it was familiar. Gal had seen this code before…
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