March 26, 2004
mac os x nam-shubs
Adapted from the book "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.
Under the right conditions, your terminal can tie into the deep structures, bypassing the higher app functions. Which is to say, someone who knows the right words can speak words, or show you visual symbols, that go past all ... the security precautions, and plugs himself into the core, enabling him to exert absolute control over the machine.
You can run todays nam-shub inside a directory that's under cvs and it will recursively find all the files that you modified (status M) and open them in FileMerge.app comparing them to their base version.
Note it creates little turds next to the modified files that start with .# and end with ~. You can change that if you don't like that behavior.
Posted by Uwe Hoffmann at March 26, 2004 04:17 PM