alt Hacker NewsAlmost everything had an easter egg in it back in the day. When computing was more fun and less serious.
They fell out of favor when people realized they were a security issue, because it was a code path that rarely got tested.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 4:23 PM
No, proper easter eggs don't introduce security issues, they're benign almost by definition. I think what made them disappear was the introduction of all the suit-wearing people who decide what the programmers are supposed to program, with no room for autonomous work within that.
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Or they were removed for other reasons than security.
In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, we had a hidden animation of Captain Kirk's toupee jumping off his head and running out of the room. It was caught before release and they made us take it out since no one wanted to piss off William Shatner.