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Pure Evil (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by realitista@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] etler@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That means that detection was added explicitly because this prank was done enough that it was worth it to add.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We do a little trolling

[–] Quik@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

The reason is in fact not only because of this exact symbol, but because people tried to change program’s behavior in a malicious way by replacing legitimate code with same looking symbols.