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The trojaning of mICQ

The trojaning of mICQ

Posted Feb 20, 2003 3:31 UTC (Thu) by trutkin (guest, #3919)
In reply to: The trojaning of mICQ by ncm
Parent article: The trojaning of mICQ

He didn't look over the diff. He was upbraided by other maintainers for this.


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The trojaning of mICQ

Posted Feb 20, 2003 22:11 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

You bet he was upbraided. Some of us take great pains to go over every
line in a 1000+ line diff file (usually not for security, but out of sheer
paranoia of breaking the package in a hideous way, and losing even more
time trying to get it to work again)...

However, as others said, don't expect normal diff-looking to catch a
really bright piece of obsfucation (which was NOT the case of mICQ).

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