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I am a hacker by trade. My job is to literally exploit your weakness. If you can't be bothered to read a "shell script (!)" that you are running... good luck.

You are on HN. Most of us are software engineers. You aren't telling us something we don't know.

If that were true, then why did this post reach the front page of Hacker News? As Larry Wall stated, the three virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, impatience, and hubris. Tools like this embody all three.

There are a hundred reasons to use this script and your responses merely lack imagination:

* Ancient script written by people at the company no longer here that may encode a bunch of assumptions and lots of dead code

* Personal script that is not to the level of full production

* Run untrusted script in a constrained environment to see at what stage it does something ugly - this will bypass obfuscation based on adding lots of dead code

That's like 3 things I already thought of while writing this comment. In like the 90 s it took me to compose this. These ostentatiously dramatic comments of yours aren't that interesting. Hopefully coming generations of engineers will look at your comments and be like "I wish I wasn't like that".

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