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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote 2010-10-04 02:36 pm (UTC)

I suppose it's perfectly possible that malware has used my code in the past. (Which would throw no blame on me – there's no end of infrastructure code in stuff I've written which would be just as useful for nefarious purposes as constructive ones, because the same sort of organisational stuff will always need taking care of no matter what top-level task you're trying to do.)

To put my name in the Windows executable metadata, though, is more sinister; the only way I can think of for that to get there by accident is if they cloned-and-hacked some part of my build scripts, and really, if they're going to copy anyone's build system I doubt they'd pick mine – it's all Unixy and idiosyncratic and weird. So I'm more inclined to think that has to have been done deliberately.

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