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Re:Why Yewtu.be Was Down? by fencepost on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:53AM (#36601258)
I understand exactly what it's doing, and while it's better than doing it on an active system in still going to stay away.

From a security standpoint, can you tell me what's different about this vs "I ran this chunk of PowerShell that said it would patch Office to bypass activation"? After all, it's just a patch.

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Re:Why Yewtu.be Was Down? by ripdog on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:06AM (#36601444)
The patch is totally open source, and the project is rather high profile. Where exactly is the additional risk here?

From a security standpoint, What's the difference between using revanced's open source patches and downloading literally any open source software from GitHub?

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