On: I accidentally built a spying app

[h_anna_h]

I agree, the authors of cron and wget/curl should have taken steps to protect people from having their privacy invaded by others who use these tools.

[Sebguer → h_anna_h]

I don't really understand why three separate people have decided to attack the exact same strawman of my argument. Read my response to the other person's?

[h_anna_h → Sebguer]

Attack? I said that I agree.

[paulryanrogers → h_anna_h]

In guessing this is sarcasm given these tools predate modern social networks and serve such a fundamental feature as "Save Page" within browsers already.

[h_anna_h → paulryanrogers]

cron doesn't do that. As for curl/wget, both can be used to do all kinds of things other than just "Save Page". Consider combining cron and curl to upload a file to a server every hour, or to download and execute some sort of backdoor script. Whether they predate modern social networks or not is irrelevant.