Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by pacamara619 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:52PM
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I don’t understand how people dare to run anything but free and open-source software. Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by LadyCailin on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:01PM
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I don’t understand how people dare to run anything but software they have written themselves. Open source software sounds good, but I don’t review each line of code myself, so we can never tell. So you must consider every program you didn’t write or review line by line as potential malware.
Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by saagarjha on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:34AM
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I don’t understand how people dare run software at all. Everyone knows software has bugs, and what if it does something you didn’t want it to do?
Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:00PM
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There are backdoored binaries for FOSS projects (filezilla comes to mind), and well-behaved proprietary programs.