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I know finding bugs is undeniably a good thing but I can't help but feel someone as obviously bright as this should be making more things It's like the people
by jack_riminton 6y ago
I know finding bugs is undeniably a good thing but I can't help but feel someone as obviously bright as this should be making more things
It's like the people who spent a lot of their time finding ever more pedantic inaccuracies and continuity errors in films.
The mute LED on your thinkpad sometimes goes out of sync? fascinating
- raziel2p 6y agoWhat gives you the impression the author doesn't also make things?
- jack_riminton 6y agoI know they do But it just reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/2Z8pgV74_Hw?t=148 https://youtu.be/2Z8pgV74_Hw?t=148
- jerrre 6y agoNot everyone feels it's their moral right to be as productive/effective as possible.
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- jenoer 6y agoThis could allow a malicious party to trick the user into thinking it's microphone is not recording while it actually is. If this action can be performed using the hardware button it is likely that it can also be performed software-wise, it would be a nice addition for malicious software such as malware.
- bzbarsky 6y agoSince the mute LED is a user-facing security feature, it is in fact a pretty serious bug if users can't rely on it to be correct. Witness the wide variety of incidents over the last year where people ended up in serious trouble because they thought they were muted but weren't. I feel like of all the examples in the blog post, this was the one with by far the biggest potential for actual harm to people.