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    6 days ago

    no malicious update can force you to generate a text and file it in court as your own work.

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      Consider that a program can edit the file while running at any point, not merely during user input. Like a virus with access to user’s files it could even edit a document that’s not even being displayed to the user on the screen.

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        well that would be fucked up for sure. are you suggesting any existing program works like that, or are just speculating what if?