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So many malicious actors have been caught because they accidentally created a mild annoyance for someone that went on to bird-dog the problem.
by aidenn0 3y ago
So many malicious actors have been caught because they accidentally created a mild annoyance for someone that went on to bird-dog the problem.
- cpach 3y agoCase in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843930
- londons_explore 3y agoWhich is why a really good backdoor is a one line logic bug somewhere which is fiendishly difficult to trigger.
- Lammy 3y agoLike the 2003 Linux kernel attempt https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
- bombcar 3y agohttp://underhanded-c.org http://underhanded-c.org if people want examples of what could (and probably, somewhere, IS) being done.
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- tialaramex 3y agoSure, however the problem that software is really hard also impacts bad actors. So it's probably at least as hard to write that one line logic bug and have it do exactly what you intended as to write equivalent real code that works precisely as intended.
- entropie 3y agoUnrelated: as a dog/pointer lover i really like the term "to bird-dog the problem". Never heard of it (iam from germany though)
- School-Cotton 3y agoI’m from the U.S. and have never heard it either, and don’t understand what it means.
- 65a 3y agoIt's somewhat regional, and it means to hunt down the target at the expense of everything else, as a dedicated hunting dog might.
- entropie 3y agoPointing dogs (bird dogs) are made to point in the direction where they have perceived game. Good dogs are then not distracted by anything and stand there motionless, sometimes so far that they have to be carried away because they cannot turn away themselves.