somewhat OT: configure and mterm was Re: Vintage terminals

[Cameron Kaiser]

> >> [vttest] aws, once upon a time.  But these days, it uses
> >> ./configure, which is a security nightmare waiting to happen.
> > Uhh...WTF?  Do you do your builds as root or something?
> 
> No (well, not most of them); why?  Do you think running malicious code
> is fine provided you're not running as root?

What portion of it is malicious (asking honestly)?

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