alt Hacker NewsDidn't realise this was some historic evil script and not some active attacker who could change tack at any moment.
That makes the fix pretty easy. Write a regex to detect the evil script, and revert every page to a historic version without the script.
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Are you sure? Are you $150 million ARR sure? Are you $150 million ARR, you'd really like to keep your job, you're not going to accidentally leave a hole or blow up something else, sure?
I agree, mostly, but I'm also really glad I don't have to put out this fire. Cheering them on from the sidelines, though!
Or just restore from backup across the board. Assuming they do their backups well this shouldn't be too hard (especially since its currently in Read Only mode which means no new updates)
True but it does say something that such a script was able to lie dormant for so long.
Letting ancient evil code run? Have we learned nothing from A Fire Upon the Deep?!