• RepleteLocum
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    01 month ago

    If you go to the right sites you won’t get any malicious code. Stop spreading corpo propaganda.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      There is nuance here. Not every crack is malicious but you have to assume they all are because some of them are. Trusting a source is irrelevant. Many security products will falsely tag cracked software as dangerous just because it’s cracked, not because it found a specific bit of nasty code, and this feeds the idea that you can’t believe when people tell you cracked software is unsafe. But there are many truly bad cracks out there. When in doubt, don’t trust it.

      And you should always doubt free shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          This is true. Even projects with good reputations get caught up in shit like the XZ back door in Linux.

          If you haven’t read up on that fiasco, you really should look into it. It got way too far before being caught all because people suck and ruin things for others.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      it isn’t propaganda.

      it’s been a while since I’ve used windows, but I remember having to give administrator privileges to software installers, whether they are from legitimate vendors or from ripping groups with modified code

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.

            It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.