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Tearing down a building,, you could probably find many easter eggs. Things written on the inside of walls. A signature in concrete later being covered by materi
by matsemann 5y ago
Tearing down a building,, you could probably find many easter eggs. Things written on the inside of walls. A signature in concrete later being covered by materials. Etc.
Comparing adding a fun flag to a system with making a physical bomb is a huge strawman.
- laumars 5y agoExaggeration, sure. But not a straw man. The rational behind the exaggeration was to illustrate how even seemingly innocuous software Easter eggs, like an additional flag, have often actually turned out to be security vulnerabilities. Maybe there is a better way of illustrating that using the plumbing metaphor. Nothing immediately came to my mind but I do apologise if my choice of analogy was more of a distraction than an explanation.
- matsemann 5y agoIt's a strawman in the sense that some here argue for the fun of adding a few bytes of output to some program, while your retorts argue against them wanting to blow up innocent people.