True@lemy.lol to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month ago'Bonus' Episode of 'House of the Dragon' Comes With a Nasty Surprise for Pirates.torrentfreak.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down13
arrow-up190arrow-down1external-link'Bonus' Episode of 'House of the Dragon' Comes With a Nasty Surprise for Pirates.torrentfreak.comTrue@lemy.lol to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·1 month agoThis isn’t exactly special. People have been putting viruses into torrents forever. You should assume anything you download from the internet has a virus!
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 month agoWhat? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoThis is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoMy fave was spending a weekend downloading the good omens radio series to find it was Queen’s Greatest Hits
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agosomebody stored their tapes in the glove bkx.
minus-squareyo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoAren’t we still vulnerable through VMs, though? I seem to remember reading something about why Qubes OS is safer than a regular VM, having to do w/ zero trust, etc.
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoQubes has more layers to the security onion, its true. But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.
minus-squareBigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month ago there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included. Yeah, like strange unreleased Weird Al tracks with sex and drugs references… Every spoof was labeled weird Al back in 2000
This isn’t exactly special. People have been putting viruses into torrents forever.
You should assume anything you download from the internet has a virus!
What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!
This is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.
My fave was spending a weekend downloading the good omens radio series to find it was Queen’s Greatest Hits
somebody stored their tapes in the glove bkx.
Aren’t we still vulnerable through VMs, though? I seem to remember reading something about why Qubes OS is safer than a regular VM, having to do w/ zero trust, etc.
Qubes has more layers to the security onion, its true.
But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.
Yeah, like strange unreleased Weird Al tracks with sex and drugs references… Every spoof was labeled weird Al back in 2000