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pgeorgi on Oct 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again...

not as if users care about watching out before setting +x.

After all, there are tons of popular projects requesting users to run "curl http://... | sudo sh" and consider that a good idea, too.

Pxtl on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

Exactly. This is just a more elaborate form of Windows little pop-up-boxes asking you "are you sure you want to...."

I keep trying to teach my nephews that the default answer to that question is no... but of course, "yes" is the way you get anything done.

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