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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by pgeorgi on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:38AM (#6570104)
not as if users care about watching out before setting +x.

After all, there are tons of popular projects requesting users to run "curl http://... | sudo sh" and consider that a good idea, too.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by Pxtl on Friday October 18, 2013 @08:47AM (#6571038)
Exactly. This is just a more elaborate form of Windows little pop-up-boxes asking you "are you sure you want to...."

I keep trying to teach my nephews that the default answer to that question is no... but of course, "yes" is the way you get anything done.

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