There are quite a few articles alleging that VLC contains 'malware', or 'chinese hacker urls'. I know the software is available on gitlab (although they typica

There are quite a few articles alleging that VLC contains 'malware', or 'chinese hacker urls'. I know the software is available on gitlab (although they typically ignore pull requests). Has anyone spun up VLC in a VM and monitored the attempts for network access to check any of this? I imagine that if any group would get to the bottom of this, it would be HN.