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Old 11-21-2023, 12:23 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by spetey View Post

I guess I'm just paranoid enough to wonder - not specifically about kovidgoyal, mind you, but about anyone in such a position - whether they might not be tempted someday to abuse such trust once it's been built, to turn a handsome profit with ransomware or whatever. Meanwhile I'll back up and/or encrypt my stuff as securely as I can, and then trust-but-verify.
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You run Linux.
The ransomware folk go after Windows users because there are so many, that even a 1% return on (code and deploy) effort is HUGE.
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