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I will not tell my kids regular scary stories. I will tell them about embedded systems

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When you program embedded you’ll also dereference NULL pointers at some point.

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Some platforms can have something interesting at memory address 0x0 (it’s often NULL in C).

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In amd64/x86 kernel space you can dereference null as well. My hobby kernel keeps critical kernel structures there XD.

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