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Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data(www.reddit.com)

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Or is it just buggy?

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Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:@fosstodon.org
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@Bro666

One obvious fact that I though would never need to be reiterated (but here we are):

Almost all OpenSource licenses approved by OSI and/or FSF have “Disclaimer of Warranty” clause in one way or another. This is from MIT:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

https://opensource.org/license/mit

More examples:
https://opensource.org/license/gpl-3-0#section15

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And this too. I mean, it is not like it is the fine print either. They capitalise the whole paragraph.

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