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		perching_aix on May 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC Would suck if an exploit was present for years, sometimes decades. Would especially suck if people piled up old exploits and fell back on them as needed.

nsteel on May 12, 2025 [–]

Imagine if this was all automated, even scripted, so even kiddies could do it, or others with almost zero security knowledge.

I'd really, really like to think most of us don't follow this terrible security practice based on a bad premise.

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