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f3408fhtoday at 10:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

A malicious actor would be happy to be publicly labeled inexperienced/naive.


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wartywhoa23today at 11:59 AM

The inverse Hanlon's razor cuts much better than the original one these days:

Never attribute to stupidity (incompetence|naivety) that which is adequately explained by malice.

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doginasuittoday at 10:48 AM

That reasoning holds but it is not based on any of the facts at hand. There's a reason why any community worth being apart of has a tendency to assume good faith. People make mistakes. I respect Don Ho's response and I don't see how the pitchfork brigade is bringing anything valuable to the situation.

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i_think_sotoday at 11:52 AM

This. A billion times this. The community should be shouting from the rooftops that there is an intruder in the neighborhood.

Maybe there's no malice intended and this is just a colossal pile of honest mistakes. Maybe this author is as clueless as he appears. Maybe, but until he appears at the United Nations and doxes himself before embarking on a world wide apology tour, nobody in their right mind should install that binary. I wouldn't even run the build script in a sandbox.