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		justinclift on April 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the x... It'll be kind of tragic if this backdoor turns out to be the developer's pet "enable remote debugging" code, and they didn't mean for it to get out into a release. ;)

unkulunkulu on April 2, 2024 [–]

I would be scared to work near a person who writes his debugging tools this way :D

justinclift on April 2, 2024 | [–]

Heh Heh Heh

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" is a pretty common story though. ;)

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