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Yeah, this is an absurd argument. How do I know I can trust Linux unless I personally audit the whole kernel? How do I know if I can trust my processor without
by Skunkleton 5y ago
Yeah, this is an absurd argument. How do I know I can trust Linux unless I personally audit the whole kernel? How do I know if I can trust my processor without an x-ray machine?
- dumpsterdiver 5y agoI am a hacker by trade. My job is to literally exploit your weakness. If you can't be bothered to read a "shell script (!)" that you are running... good luck.
- Skunkleton 5y agoYou are on HN. Most of us are software engineers. You aren't telling us something we don't know.
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- dumpsterdiver 5y agoIf that were true, then why did this post reach the front page of Hacker News? As Larry Wall stated, the three virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, impatience, and hubris. Tools like this embody all three.
- renewiltord 5y agoThere are a hundred reasons to use this script and your responses merely lack imagination: * Ancient script written by people at the company no longer here that may encode a bunch of assumptions and lots of dead code * Personal script that is not to the level of full production * Run untrusted script in a constrained environment to see at what stage it does something ugly - this will bypass obfuscation based on adding lots of dead code That's like 3 things I already thought of while writing this comment. In like the 90 s it took me to compose this. These ostentatiously dramatic comments of yours aren't that interesting. Hopefully coming generations of engineers will look at your comments and be like "I wish I wasn't like that".