I laughed and my partner ask why. I told her it’s some really nerdy humor. She was fine not hearing the joke, but I loosely explained it anyway. She humored me anyway. She’s a good woman.

if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs

It’s like that guy that posted an example Bitcoin miner on GitHub, then a bunch of script kiddies forgot to change his wallet info for their own before deploying… He made a good chunk of change by doing nothing malicious.

Sorry, folks. Using cmalw-lib is now deprecated.

Cool kids are using systemd-malwd

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it’s about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It’d be a stretch to call it malware, it’s probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.

Isn’t this just a newer version of this? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html