Since logging into the backdoor account produced a `#` prompt instead of `$`, it was uid 0, so the last will and testament was either in `/root` or in `/`, depending on how the non-backdoor root account was set up.
Plus, if Flynn was running those commands while logged in as "backdoor" rather than while logged in as "root", the text displayed on-screen specifically says that the backdoor account doesn't have a home directory configured so it would treat `/` as the home directory. Which would mean the computer now has a `/last_will_and_testament.txt` file. That's pretty prominent and attention-drawing. It's going to be found by anyone who investigates that computer.
I think we can assume any hacker worth his salt has a dead man trigger. I imagine that if he doesn't reset it before a given period elapses then a script imports that will and testament text file into LaTeX and emails a lovingly rendered PDF off to the local lawyer.
You can find correlations with stock price and positive user perception that were held up in product.
It came with its share of paper cuts too, like going from 4.x to 6.x or literally anything challenging to the rickety boxes of OFBiz and wholly-different products skinned for looks-maxxing.
Those engineers dipped out a while back and took their $280 shares with them.
I agree with you, but at the same time I went to university to study music production when Napster just came out. That decimated the music industry forever and I dropped out because I realised I'd made a bad move.
I can totally see how ai could do the same thing to all sorts of art industries that have not had their Napster moment yet.
I can argue that the music industry is decimated not directly by Napster, but their practices and dogmas set ground for it.
For me, even as a broke student "Free!" was not the charm, but "accessibility". I made music, played in orchestras. I know the effort required, and never wanted to steal livelihoods from people, but music before Napster was inaccessible.
Some free radios, expensive CDs and cheap cassettes with bad sound quality. It was impossible to explore and listen a broad spectrum of music.
Now I can try and buy albums. Yes, the publishers still earn way more than the musician, but it didn't start with Napster. It was still like that before Napster.
FWIW, I bought and still buy music rather than streaming it, I'd happily continue doing so. I just want DRM-Free high quality music to listen on various devices of mine, that's all.
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