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Neil Vass @neil_vass@mastodon.me.uk

Surely this can't be true... #AdventOfCode as a virus scanner?

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb98pn/2022_day_3_something_weird_with_copypasting/

Screenshot of the linked Reddit question: Someone doing today's advent of code challenge found one of the nonsense strings in the puzzle input changes when they copy and paste it.

Screenshot of answer on the linked Reddit question: The disappearing string is formatted like cryptocurrency details, some malware on the poster's computer is trying to rob them.

Dec 03, 2022, 02:37 PM··Web

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