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Yep, a company I worked at hired a tech writer that downloaded some cracked version of software that included ransomware on their first day of work because they
by dx87 7y ago
Yep, a company I worked at hired a tech writer that downloaded some cracked version of software that included ransomware on their first day of work because they said they didn't want to wait for the company to get them a legitimate copy.
- toyg 7y agoWell, that used to be common practice... in the '90s. Thank $deity for the rise of opensource.
- protomyth 7y agoOpenSource still isn't a force in that particular area. Its Microsoft or Adobe there.
- toyg 7y agoYeah, what I meant is that, these days, the culture is such that one assumes there will be an OSS tool somewhere, before one even considers a sketchy binary. Maybe the OSS option will be inferior, but it's almost guaranteed that it will get some stuff done and not nuke your machine. That's a significant improvement (of course we know that having a github repo is no guarantee and blablabla, but it correlates well enough for most purposes).