!!! RED ALERT: SHIELDS UP, TROJAN SOURCE HAS ARRIVED !!!

[NotATether]

Completely agree. I have seen some of these cloud IDE's such as Cloud9 (which is amazon now I think) and their interface cant offer half the functionality of what something like PyCharm, PHPStorm or VSCode can. Especially with the Git integration.

Cloud9 is just a mashup of an editor, terminal, and file browser (and another terminal that masquerades as a gdb debugger). There's no extension functionality of all, and I believe you're stuck with whatever linters Cloud9 ships with as well (pylint, eslint, etc.) In most cases there is no semantic/runtime error checking of any kind.

It's completely stupid to host your only local copy on the cloud though, I've lost code from AWS terminating my account and having Cloud9 as my only local source. Luckily I had pushed an old copy to a private self-hosted Gitea instance beforehand, after almost 'rm-ing my entire project folder.

[PrimeNumber7]

Good point. But i doubt his test is meaningful since SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is written in PHP while he posted C code.

What is also interesting that I have seen in discussions now, is how many people code in the cloud. I always as does just about everyone I know do everything locally and then push it up to github or wherever. I never knew how many people are doing it all online and then pull and compile it locally. Guess I'm old.

-Dave

Completely agree. I have seen some of these cloud IDE's such as Cloud9 (which is amazon now I think) and their interface cant offer half the functionality of what something like PyCharm, PHPStorm or VSCode can. Especially with the Git integration.

I might be willing to use a cloud IDE that saves my work-in-progress to the cloud but still has the capability to perform GIT functions to the applicable branch of the repo I am working on. This might cut back on commits to my branch if I am pulled away from working on something unexpectedly, for example.

I would not be particularly comfortable with an IDE that saves in real-time without the ability to commit my changes. This would make it difficult to undue changes that break something, or that is later decided against implementing.

[Skybuck]

Well mean while, I have read the entire document, looked at examples, looked at what professor mentions is vunerable software basically all webbrowsers <- that is big.

If this was known then why is it not fixed ? Clearly it wasn't know or people didn't take it seriously, I'll let you choose.

Paying 8010 or 1080 is a big deal this could be fooled on the web.

Anyway I also googled around found some doc about hacking unicode, apperently in that doc this was also know.

The thing that alarmed me is that this-executes-exe.txt actually worked in windows 7.

Basically the exe.txt get's swapped, so the real filename is this-executes-txt.exe.

I have never seen such a thing in all these years of windows usage ! That totally shocked me. SO BEWARE !

For now I have calmed down somewhat, totally calm now...

There is babelmap an babeleditor that can be used to experiment with unicode and control characters ! Have fun ! =D

I also worry about magnetlinks from whatever reason... my spider-sense till me somebody is going to do something bad with it.

Or how about URI payments ! AH YES ! URI payments would be the perfect way to fool USERS.

HOLYSHIT.

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.

[NotATether]

The thing that alarmed me is that this-executes-exe.txt actually worked in windows 7.

Basically the exe.txt get's swapped, so the real filename is this-executes-txt.exe.

It only works on Windows, as more sane operating systems will classify the file based on its MIME type (by, you know, actually inspecting the file contents)

[ABCbits]

What is also interesting that I have seen in discussions now, is how many people code in the cloud. I always as does just about everyone I know do everything locally and then push it up to github or wherever. I never knew how many people are doing it all online and then pull and compile it locally. Guess I'm old.

I don't code much, but most people i know still code locally. But maybe it's because internet speed/stability isn't good enough to have good experience with online code editor.

The thing that alarmed me is that this-executes-exe.txt actually worked in windows 7.

Basically the exe.txt get's swapped, so the real filename is this-executes-txt.exe.

Windows 7 no longer receive security update, so those who still use it are vulnerable to more common malware/trojan/ransomware.

P.S. I know there's "Extended Security Updates" for Windows 7, but only corporation with legacy software who would pay for it.

[mistereverything]

seems like fear pronz to me