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Re:Faker.js is now a community controlled project by z3ncyberpunk on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:04PM (#29969446)
Everything about your comment is wrong. For one you're not giving your lunch to anyone, More analogously you're putting something in the refrigerator, and people can take at their own leisure and risk. You can poison it if you want, in fact it's a pretty common workplace tactic for people to mix in something like a laxative to THEIR OWN food because they're tired of it being stolen everyday. Again you make the choice to use the software, or take the food, the risk is on your head.

And the cybersecurity industry would like to have a word with you since you don't believe it's possible to create malware.

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Re:Faker.js is now a community controlled project by starwind on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:41PM (#29970093)
You're wrong. You literally just described assault or (best case scenario) a tort

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/966/can-one-be-liabl...

> I can't create code with malware. I can't modify my code to make it malware.

I guess I can appreciate your confusion but I still think I was clear in my previous comment. I'm willing to concede I would have been more clear if I had written:

I can't legally create code with malware to distribute without a warning. I can't legally modify my code to make it malware if I know people are using it.

PS I'm not discussing this further

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