Poll: Temporary no-obfuscation policy?
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Read the post before voting.
As I'm sure you've all noticed, there has been a variety of malicious scripts posted in the last few days, and to address this, I propose a new, temporary, policy that forbids the posting of obfuscated scripts.
I'm sure that some of the members here would be disappointed by this -- after all, they post their scripts in obfuscated form, which does have the benefit of not getting their code skidded as easily, however, this is completely overshadowed by the danger of some members (who may be new, or inexperienced, or just careless) running a malicious script that steals their accounts, or does even worse things to their computer.
Alternatively, we could also:
- reject all new registrations
- ban all VPN, Tor, and Proxy users from signing up (which we already, sort of, do, by using cloudflare)
- disallow posting of scripts entirely
All of these affect people with good intent in a major way, though.
Any other ideas? -
Read the post before voting.
As I'm sure you've all noticed, there has been a variety of malicious scripts posted in the last few days, and to address this, I propose a new, temporary, policy that forbids the posting of obfuscated scripts.
I'm sure that some of the members here would be disappointed by this -- after all, they post their scripts in obfuscated form, which does have the benefit of not getting their code skidded as easily, however, this is completely overshadowed by the danger of some members (who may be new, or inexperienced, or just careless) running a malicious script that steals their accounts, or does even worse things to their computer.
Alternatively, we could also:
- reject all new registrations
- ban all VPN, Tor, and Proxy users from signing up (which we already, sort of, do, by using cloudflare)
- disallow posting of scripts entirely
All of these affect people with good intent in a major way, though.
Any other ideas? -
Read the post before voting.
As I'm sure you've all noticed, there has been a variety of malicious scripts posted in the last few days, and to address this, I propose a new, temporary, policy that forbids the posting of obfuscated scripts.
I'm sure that some of the members here would be disappointed by this -- after all, they post their scripts in obfuscated form, which does have the benefit of not getting their code skidded as easily, however, this is completely overshadowed by the danger of some members (who may be new, or inexperienced, or just careless) running a malicious script that steals their accounts, or does even worse things to their computer.
Alternatively, we could also:
- reject all new registrations
- ban all VPN, Tor, and Proxy users from signing up (which we already, sort of, do, by using cloudflare)
- disallow posting of scripts entirely
All of these affect people with good intent in a major way, though.
Any other ideas? -
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@rafay but he isnt
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@rafay but he isnt
@mems What if I was?
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@rafay I said "we" a total of 2 times in that post, that's 4 characters in a post that's 967 characters long, that results in a percentage of 0.41%. That's pretty low for a post addressing broader community policy, is it not?
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@aftery your post made me laugh somehow.
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