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itintheorytoday at 12:29 AM2 repliesview on HN

This feels like using sudo is just inherently unsafe.


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grueztoday at 1:57 AM

This but unironically. There's no way to ensure that nobody overwrote your .profile or .bashrc with a backdoored sudo that steals your password, or runs your command and then runs an evil command afterwards.

alsetmusictoday at 12:44 AM

This feels like using a computer is inherently unsafe.

On the plus side, once we outlaw them we'll shut down the ability for conspiratorial thinking to spread easily and the world will slowly heal from the last couple of decades (the previous one in particular).

Hooray! We're finally doing something about the harms of social media. Smash your computer today!

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