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"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malware."
by lmkg 7y ago
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malware."
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoI remember an instance where someone updated and deployed the strong_passwords ruby gem since "it had an update". This was more or less right after it was found out that the v0.7 gem was compromised. Cue rushing at the commit and double checking that it was using the "fixed" 0.8 and not the 0.7. Developer had no idea that 0.7 was compromised, and just updated the gem because they could without looking at patch notes.
- toyg 7y agoIs this yours? Sounds perfect. Sounds even better (and more malicious) reversed: "Sufficiently advanced malware is indistinguishable from incompetence". All those debug features "mistakenly" shipped in hardware...