Interesting app

[Peter Korsten]

Op 22-12-2011 20:31, moron schreef:

> On Thursday, December 22, 2011 11:19:39 AM Jay Vaughan wrote:
>> I *like* the idea of using IRC to exchange patches and create a community
>> of like-minded musicians through their instruments patch/memory interface.
>>   I just don't believe that remote execution of code over IRC is the way to
>> do it.  Yikes, as a cool synth this part sure is a huge wtf?
>
> Any chance the synth author doesn't know that code is there?  As in, that came
> in from some other library or via copy and paste of example code?  Seems like
> a strange vector to try to control others machines. . .if you wanted that
> wouldn't you just seed filesharing sites with backdoored apps, do a spam run,
> look for Wordpress installs, etc.?

Possibly it never occurred to him that this might be an issue.

- Peter