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Re:‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code by stackbutterflow on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:59AM (#29066671)
> It's certainly a good lesson in not copy/pasting random snippets from the internet and pasting them into a root shell, however

I gotta say that I always make sure that I understand each piece of code that I copy paste but I do copy paste and never thought of this type of attack. Maybe that's something I should pay attention to in the future.

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Re:‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code by captaincrunch on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:18AM (#29066861)
from the article, its likely you'd not even notice - unless you pasted in an ascii only editor that doesn't allow anything other than plain old text.
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