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		rainonmoon 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbud... /etc/passwd is world readable by default.

kaszanka 5 months ago [–]

To be even more pedantic, it's also not present on Android.

jcul 5 months ago | [–]

Good points, I've been out pedantic-ed!

reverendsteveii 5 months ago | | [–]

not if you fork an open source os and add /etc/passwd you haven't been

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