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A comment on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003.

Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 by Pxtl on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @01:06PM (#6522441)
I wonder how many millions of dollars of damage has been done by the bone-headed equality/assignment syntax in C?
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Re:The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 by nilved on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @08:03PM (#6524783)
The problem is overstated, but using := (or ->, or whatever) for assignment and = for comparison hasn't ever seemed like a bad idea.
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