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Calling something that’s trying to fool people into tipping into a crypto wallet controlled by the person who inserted it an Easter-egg is really stretching it.
by gklitz 2y ago
Calling something that’s trying to fool people into tipping into a crypto wallet controlled by the person who inserted it an Easter-egg is really stretching it.
It’s obviously trying to insert the potential for financial fai into the software which falls well within the definition of malware. Just because the author calls it a joke doesn’t mean it’s suddenly not a serious breach of the confidence placed on them.
- echoangle 2y agoHow is it trying to fool people? Unless the address on the screen doesn’t belong to EE, it’s not dishonest in any way right? It says the badge was designed by EE and has a donation address, how would that fool anyone? Isn’t it correct?
- gklitz 2y agoI might be misunderstanding what was embeeded, but since the author stating that they put the is in “as a joke” in the same context they were explaining that they basically were not working on behalf of entropic and “just doing it cause I wanted people to have badges” I was under the assumption that the crypto wallet was controlled by the author. In any case, putting a tip screen in software you’re creating for others without telling them is certainly a bad look, and it seems fair to me that they didn’t want the person at the panel.
- echoangle 2y agoFor reference, here’s the screen: https://imgur.com/Qy7iPKE https://imgur.com/Qy7iPKE I don’t know if the wallet belongs to Entropic or Dmitry and he intended to forward the money to them.
- gklitz 2y ago> and he intended to forward the money to them. That’s just a cop out and we all know it. Let’s not pretend like scammers aren’t scammers be used they might pass some money after the fact to “good causes”. If you inject a fund collecting mechanism that you control into a flow, that’s like doing a MITM attack but claiming it’s ok because you forward the traffic.