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Serious question: How can you possibly trust pirated software in 2019? How do you know it’s not riddled with rootkits and backdoors?
by lph 7y ago
Serious question: How can you possibly trust pirated software in 2019? How do you know it’s not riddled with rootkits and backdoors?
- silversconfused 7y agoWell to be fair, pirates are far more honest and helpful than corporations.
- everyone 7y agoAgreed, pirated anything from a known trusted group or uploader is what I consider a clean copy of something. If I buy the official version of anything I usually use the pirated version anyway.
- h1d 7y agoThat is dangerous. They can plant whatever the hell they want as soon as it looks financially attractive. What repercussion do they have against corporations doing the same?
- everyone 7y agoHow can you possibly trust open source software in 2019? Do you pore over all the code checking it? I'm gonna assume in most cases no, and that you trust the community who do actually do that. Same with pirated software. I'll trust a known group, because they have a history of clean releases, as opposed to a corp, who often have a history of shenanigans and spyware and whatnot.
- vbezhenar 7y agoI did not try to crack LTSB, but I think that it's similar to other Windowses. You're downloading MSDN iso from torrents (which you can verify by checksumming and googling), you're installing fake license server somewhere and you're activating your copy with that fake license server. No need to crack or run anything and fake license server is open source, so you can even compile it yourself and run from VM or VPS or whatever. I wouldn't even call that stealing, as many folks legitimately want stable Windows and MS does not want to sell LTSB to them.