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There was a time when easter eggs used to be ok. In today’s malware-ridden world, there should be no more room for easter eggs. All projects should voluntarily
by Hackbraten 5y ago
There was a time when easter eggs used to be ok.
In today’s malware-ridden world, there should be no more room for easter eggs. All projects should voluntarily abolish and ban them.
- zkldi 5y agoOP of the issue here - I literally talk about this in the thread. Easter eggs are cool, but obfuscated payloads in critical code is not. > Hi, While I appreciate easter eggs (and think others have it a bit too much out for them), the fact that this easter egg is obfuscated sets off multiple alarm bells. The automated code scanners were right -- this looks like malware! > [...] > If this easter egg was unobfuscated, I would've just looked at it and gone "thats neat", but the fact that this was obfuscated to look like malware means I have to spend 10 mins checking that it isn't actually malicious. It would be nice if the easter egg was kept but de-obfuscated so others aren't concerned by it.