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		pixl97 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer There is a term for this but I can't remember what it's called. Effectively you put in on purpose bugs for an inspector to find so they don't dig too deep for difficult to solve problems.

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smcin 1 day ago | [–]

'canary', 'review canary' or something.

macintux 1 day ago | | [–]

There's a related (apocryphal?) story from Interplay about adding a duck to animations so that the producer would ask for it to be removed, to make him happy, while leaving the rest alone.

https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/

smcin 1 day ago | | | [–]

Yeah, that one too.

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