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Defuse Deserialization

CHALLENGE

Difficulty: intermediate+25 XP

Implement load_payload(data: bytes) that safely decodes untrusted payloads: try JSON (utf-8) and return the object; on any failure raise ValueError('unsafe payload'). The docstring must promise never to use pickle (graders check json is used and pickle is NOT).

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