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I feel as if there is a meaningful distinction to be made between a program that occasionally downloads binary patches to itself (and will run fine without it),

by dTal 7y ago

I feel as if there is a meaningful distinction to be made between a program that occasionally downloads binary patches to itself (and will run fine without it), and a program that gratuitously downloads scripts every time it is run, runs them directly from ram so that they can't be audited, and refuses to run if it is not allowed to do this.

freddie_mercury 7y ago
So if you're running Chrome/Firefox dev-channel then they're a RAT? Or is twice a week not enough to trigger your threshold? What about the canaries that are updated daily? What about betas that are updated every week? I'm not sure how you come up with a good distinction.
- gruez 7y ago
  >So if you're running Chrome/Firefox dev-channel then they're a RAT? No, because it's opt-in and it's explicitly needed for the purposes of a dev/nightly build. This is as opposed to a voip client which needs unrestricted access because... they want to be able to run A/B tests on uninformed subjects?