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by bsjks 1648 days ago
When you execute a random file you got off the internet (even worse, with sudo) you don’t get to complain about the consequences. The rest of the story is pure fluff.
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Wanna know how I know you don't support 1000s of normie users?
So glad I don't see this as a presumed badge of honor anymore.

Rather be working on simplifying security/privacy tools for these users, or educating them.

Android enforces robust sandboxing on all programs, so this would not have happened.

This is the security tradeoff that comes with the standard desktop model of computing, and people should be upfront about it when promoting phones running desktop operating systems

We need a curated list of random files from the internet. awesome-randomfiles anyone?