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nerdponxtoday at 1:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Time to start including deliberate bugs. The correct version is in a private repository.


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below43today at 8:07 PM

They used to do this with maps - eg. fake islands - to pick up when they were copied.

teiferertoday at 2:47 PM

And what purpose would this serve, exactly?

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program_whiztoday at 3:06 PM

while I think this is a fun idea -- we are in such a dystopian timeline that I fear you will end up being prosecuted under a digital equivalent of various laws like "why did you attack the intruder instead of fleeing" or "you can't simply remove a squatter because its your house, therefore you get an assault charge."

A kind of "they found this code, therefore you have a duty not to poison their model as they take it." Meanwhile if I scrape a website and discover data I'm not supposed to see (e.g. bank details being publicly visible) then I will go to jail for pointing it out. :(

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