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61 points vandalism | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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sneak ◴[07 Sep 25 01:39 UTC] No.45154582[source]▶

The entitlement of application authors to do whatever the fuck they want on your machine is astounding to me.

Root CAs, background processes 24/7, uploading of the full process list, clipboard spying, local network scanning, surveillance (aka telemetry) - when did developers decide that our machines aren’t ours anymore?

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1. guessmyname ◴[07 Sep 25 01:48 UTC] No.45154643[source]▶

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Add to the list exfiltration of $ENV (environment variables), which often include secret keys and app tokens. I have seen many young developers expose their $ENV on GitHub when other developers asks them to share their “go env”, or similar commands, while debugging a problem.

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