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> Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your com

• mpeg 11y ago
  It's not. There's already two main sources for the Popcorn Time app (popcorntime.io and popcorn-time.se). Neither of them are distributed by the original devs, how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries?
  • kordless 11y ago
    > how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries This question is a logical fallacy, in that a negative can't be proved in the context of this particular problem set. You would need to prove the inverse, namely that you are certain that significant numbers of binaries of Popcorn Time contain malware, and how you arrived at that conclusion.
    • mpeg 11y ago
      Piracy-enabling p2p apps don't have a great track record (remember all the KaZaa clones?) You just have to do a quick google search to find that even the original devs are concerned about the number of forks, and malware-riddled copies of Popcorn Time [0] Also, there's been a number of reports that the most famous forks contain adware [1] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-malware-and-scams-150707/ https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-ma... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4popcorn_popcorntimese_now_includes_adware_do/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4po...