← Back to context Comment by sph 13 hours ago In computer security, never attribute to ignorance that which is adequately explained by malice. 18 comments sph Reply torginus 6 hours ago Dunno, if I were to backdoor a piece of my code, I would definitely put in an exploit instead of a deliberate bypass.Plausible deniability is important.A lot of the stuff I worked on already had glaring issues like that without me having to add it.. hnlmorg 13 hours ago You’ve got the saying backwards:“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor jchw 13 hours ago Pretty sure the point was to invert it. :) hnlmorg 13 hours ago Yes, I got their point. My point is that’s the opposite of reality. 9 replies → psychoslave 10 hours ago Looks like this time you interpreted the message in a malicious way. hnlmorg 9 hours ago How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content. 2 replies →
torginus 6 hours ago Dunno, if I were to backdoor a piece of my code, I would definitely put in an exploit instead of a deliberate bypass.Plausible deniability is important.A lot of the stuff I worked on already had glaring issues like that without me having to add it..
hnlmorg 13 hours ago You’ve got the saying backwards:“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor jchw 13 hours ago Pretty sure the point was to invert it. :) hnlmorg 13 hours ago Yes, I got their point. My point is that’s the opposite of reality. 9 replies → psychoslave 10 hours ago Looks like this time you interpreted the message in a malicious way. hnlmorg 9 hours ago How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content. 2 replies →
jchw 13 hours ago Pretty sure the point was to invert it. :) hnlmorg 13 hours ago Yes, I got their point. My point is that’s the opposite of reality. 9 replies →
psychoslave 10 hours ago Looks like this time you interpreted the message in a malicious way. hnlmorg 9 hours ago How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content. 2 replies →
hnlmorg 9 hours ago How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content. 2 replies →
Dunno, if I were to backdoor a piece of my code, I would definitely put in an exploit instead of a deliberate bypass.
Plausible deniability is important.
A lot of the stuff I worked on already had glaring issues like that without me having to add it..
You’ve got the saying backwards:
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Pretty sure the point was to invert it. :)
Yes, I got their point. My point is that’s the opposite of reality.
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Looks like this time you interpreted the message in a malicious way.
How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content.
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