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Is systemd's hand-rolled Desktop-Bus-over-SSH tunnel a security worry?

• ars 9y ago
  'hand-rolled'?? Is there some other way of programming I don't know about? I mean, say, immature, or lightly tested or something, but 'hand-rolled'??
  • tetromino_ 9y ago
    > Is there some other way of programming I don't know about? Unfortunately - yes, there is. There is a school of developers who choose to pull in a third-party library even for left-padding a string: http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/ http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...
  • subwayclub 9y ago
    They could automate the implementation of the protocol from the spec, as has been done to TCP/IP on at least one occasion(VPRI STEPS).
• JdeBP 9y ago
  Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178945 .