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by viro 5y ago
You think pushing malware in a fake app update isn't criminal?
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by viro 5y ago
if you want to use non-homekit devices with homekit you kind of have to.
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by viro 5y ago
Nah its not. It crashes hoobs and the ring plugin for homebridge. And probably a lot of other software.
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by viro 5y ago
No it only describes malicious intent which IS required for it to be malware aka criminal.
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by viro 5y ago
malware is malware. shoulda coulda doesn't matter its still a crime. "All those people I scammed out of their life saving should have known better". You probably shouldn't advertise that you work at crowd strike with cra
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by viro 5y ago
It broke hoobs and crashes its security camera plugins. Most people would consider that pretty heavy damage.
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by viro 5y ago
It crashes the servers that use the package?
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by viro 5y ago
> be hold responsible for downstream breakages he's not, He's being held responsible for intentionally pushing malware
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by viro 5y ago
That's not what happened here. Author intentionally pushed malware.
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by viro 5y ago
No a license clause can't shield you from an intently malicious act. He's probably getting charged under the CFAA.
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by viro 5y ago
It's literally a crime. malware is illegal.
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by viro 5y ago
you love to see people indiscriminately pushing malware to random servers without knowing what the server even does?
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by viro 5y ago
no it does not mean you can legally change your software to malware.
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by viro 5y ago
the fact that this is literally a criminal act. he pushed code KNOWING it would crash every server that pulled it. Its NOT a bug, its malware.
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by viro 5y ago
no its a criminal act. crashing RANDOM servers that you DONT know what they do is not a protest.
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by viro 5y ago
Minus my Hoobs setup was literally knocked offline over that stupid ass stunt. Care to describe to me how that isn't a violation of the CFAA? The fact that you think that crashing RANDOM servers that you DONT know what they do is an ok
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by viro 5y ago
> Sysadmin skills are so easy these days they’re forcing developers to do it as an additional part of their responsibilities. Nah most devops is IaC and sysops with very little if any dev. As some one that edits yaml files all day, I wil
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by viro 5y ago
> they rug-pulled a popular NPM package. That's within their rights That sounds like malicious activity. That's normally against most terms of service
109.
by viro 5y ago
That's not how labor works. Adding more people often times increases the time a task takes.
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by viro 5y ago
Going into the search AD business would significantly hurt one of the iPhone's most significant selling factors, privacy. Because at the end of the day "Apple makes money by selling overpriced hardware, not by selling your data.&
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by viro 5y ago
I think Lithuania would like a word with you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and other EU states I guess
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by viro 5y ago
> for our democracy spreading. Don't go trying blame them for our actions. Assuming ur from the US or EU.
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by viro 5y ago
Scientific consensus changes when it receives new data.
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by viro 5y ago
> they'll say that women are fundamentally less capable of leading religious groups and that God made this rule for a reason Thats kinda of rather easily pointed out as misogyny tho. What makes them less capable?
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by viro 5y ago
Design stuff like this can cause a lot of problems, when you just "fix" them. Just ask Windows enterprise customers how printing has been lately have.
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by viro 5y ago
So I'm a little confused. How is Facebook responsible for some thing a government did? Or is this just because they can't do anything to the government without invading.
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by viro 5y ago
oh on avg. they completely dismiss it based on current immigration policy self selecting rich Asian families. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by viro 5y ago
Thanks.
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by viro 5y ago
what was the new rule/policy change? I must have missed it.
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by viro 5y ago
A. who sets the price? ... not amazon. B & C You want to pass on standard costs of business on to the customer. The fair pricing rule restricts that practice and is pro consumer. As a consumer I don't care the rule hurts ur bottom

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