I accidentally built a spying app

Re:I accidentally built a spying app by h_anna_h on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:36AM (#25314808)

I agree, the authors of cron and wget/curl should have taken steps to protect people from having their privacy invaded by others who use these tools.

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Re:I accidentally built a spying app by Sebguer on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:49PM (#25317688)

I don't really understand why three separate people have decided to attack the exact same strawman of my argument. Read my response to the other person's?

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Re:I accidentally built a spying app by h_anna_h on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:44PM (#25319144)

Attack? I said that I agree.

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Re:I accidentally built a spying app by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:41AM (#25315330)

In guessing this is sarcasm given these tools predate modern social networks and serve such a fundamental feature as "Save Page" within browsers already.

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Re:I accidentally built a spying app by h_anna_h on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:53PM (#25316584)

cron doesn't do that. As for curl/wget, both can be used to do all kinds of things other than just "Save Page". Consider combining cron and curl to upload a file to a server every hour, or to download and execute some sort of backdoor script. Whether they predate modern social networks or not is irrelevant.

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