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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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