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Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 13, 2009 14:59 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)
In reply to: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus by efexis
Parent article: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

But what brilliance, no? To indicate that the icon is an icon, and to use an icon to do that. It's an Escher-icon.

One of the other posters of course hit the nail right on the head: until we have a mechanism that with reasonable security allows a user to validate the purpose of downloaded content, all other suggestions are pointless.


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