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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

by @disconnect3d_pl disconnect3d.pl 2 min read

I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.

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