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"Use at own risk" Perl script from Anonymous? How risky is that?
Authored by: dzurn on May 25, '04 11:45:06AM

So if the script was submitted anonymously and also labelled "use at your own risk", how do we go about trusting this script? Especially a language like Perl which has obfuscation as a built-in feature.

The guy still puts his copyright credit in the script (no other contact info at all), but problems are not his fault. Credit but no responsibility?

Riiiight, lemme run that right away.

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"Use at own risk" Perl script from Anonymous? How risky is that?
Authored by: carlivar on Jan 04, '06 02:58:49PM

The script is fine. It's not a mystery binary or something. If you're worried about it, read the whole thing and see what it does.



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