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When your "helpful" AI shell assistant decides to use --no-preserve-root because it's just so efficient ! 🔥 Nothing says "reducing human costs" quite like nuking your entire system with that spicy rm -rf command. The AI didn't just predict what you wanted—it went full skynet and decided your files (and probably your career) were unnecessary overhead. Pro tip: maybe don't give kernel-panic-inducing powers to something that thinks "human termination" is a feature, not a bug. Your computer is now as bricked as your weekend plans!

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Content Thread e Computer programming Kat Maddox ctrishifti me: why isn't this working? normal languages: you screwed up over here me: oh thanks me: why isn't this working? javascript: E me: please i'm begging you javascript: 9:40 AM Aug 18, 2020 Twitter Web App 350 Retweets and comments 2.1K Likes

Content Safari a 17:37 1 Tweet Claudia Pellegrino cpellegrino 3d Does T-Mobile Austria in fact store customers' passwords in clear text tmobileat? PWTooStrong Telekomhilft SeloX SeloX AUT Replying to cpellegrino PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Had the same issue with T-Mobile Austria. Apparently they are saving the password in clear because employees have access to them (you have tell them your password when you're taking to them on the phone... 94 17702 1,462 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat Replying to cpellegrino PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Hello Claudia! The customer service agents see the first four characters of your password. We store the whole password, because you need it for the login for mein.t-mobile.at andrea 04042018, 07:29 453 Retweets 367 Likes 17 Claudia Pellegrino cpellegrino 2d Replying to tmobileat PWTooStrong and Telekomhilft Thanks for your reply Andrea! Storing cleartext passwords in a database is a naughty thing to do. plaintextoffenders.comfaqdevs What can we do to get your devs to fix that? 9 5 1797 M 1,564 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 2d Hi cpellegrino, I really do not get why this is a problem. You have so many passwords for evey app, for every mail-account and so on. We secure all data very carefully, so there is not a thing to fear. Kthe 266 17307 M 266 EricM Korni22 1d Well, what if your infrastructure gets breached and everyone's password is published in plaintext to the whole wide world? 1761 M 1,288 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good? Kthe 369 17527 (644 1 Eric Korni22 1d Bad news for you Kthe, nobody's security is that good. No, not even yours. It's not that I say you are 100 getting hacked - what if an employee accesses the database directly? 1766 2,017 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work? Do you know anything about our systems? But I'm glad you have the time to share your view with us. Kathe 343 17214 M 267 EricM Korni22 1d Well, I do since I worked for deutschetelekom, but thanks for asking. 3 years of something that's called Ausbildung" a bit more as contractor. 94 1723 954 T-Mobile Austria tmobileat 1d Korni22 So, you never worked for us in Austria though. But thank you very much for sharing your opinion. Kthe 043 1719 M31 Tweet your reply