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The top hit has stuff like this on its readme: > Over the past year, we've worked together to build and improve this project. It has been an incredible journey

The top hit has stuff like this on its readme: > Over the past year, we've worked together to build and improve this project. It has been an incredible journey, and I'm immensely grateful for all the contributions, feedback, and support from each one of you. It has been an incredible journey doing crime together with y’all. Huggles and fuzzies! ^_^ I simply don't understand that vibe. I guess I’m just old cause back in my days, the crime geeks openly did was warez and that seems substantially less evil to me. This software is explicitly intended to victimize individual users. I simply don’t get how someone can get so “incredible journey” about that sort of stuff, you active worked to make the world worse.

127 3y ago
Crime is usually more effective if you shroud it in a cloud of gaslighting.
hutzlibu 3y ago
Oh, but their disclaimer says, they don't do crime: \s "Disclaimer: This program is provided for educational and research purposes only. The creator of this program does not condone or support any illegal or malicious activity" I guess it is a gang like mindset. Exploiting others and preying on the weak. And I am not that old, but I actually also do remember other and more dark hack activity from the past, than just warez.
- skrebbel 3y ago
  Sure, people were doing it, but they weren’t pretending it was a good thing on public github repos.
  - op00to 3y ago
    What are you talking about? There were entire “demoscene” advertisements in pirated games back in the day touting the awesomeness of Razor 1911 or whatever.
    - hutzlibu 3y ago
      I would argue between cracking a game and stealing other peoples accounts and money, there are worlds.
    - skrebbel 3y ago
      I was referring to “more dark hack activity, than just warez”. Afaik razor didn't advertise “steal innocent people’s account” services in cutesy cracktros.
praash 3y ago
That guy is literally providing technical support in GH issues. No way. People complain about logging into stolen accounts and the developer is happy to help. There's a pinned page on how to disinfect your system, accompanied with a vibe of "should've been more careful, idiot!" Seeing this happy-OSS-community praise from someone providing a turn-key malware solution for even the most technologically incompetent jerks is just harrowing.
- vasdae 3y ago
  >Got hacked by Blank Grabber? Well, you should have taken care before downloading/opening suspicious files. He's not wrong.
  - skrebbel 3y ago
    Got mugged? Well you should’ve avoided that neighbourhood.
    - vasdae 3y ago
      You should've voted better*
  - ForestCritter 3y ago
    hmmm so when you do projects with people and someone you haven't heard from in a while shows up and wants to show you what they are working on your first thought should be to grill them in the third degree and ask them the color of their underwear to make sure it's them...
  - _8j50 3y ago
    Being careful is not enough, you also have to be competent. You can be careful all you want, I had to expain to an HNer earlier for example how .js files on windows are actually native executable scripts. Is a lay person supposed to know that for example?
    - vasdae 3y ago
op00to 3y ago
Back in the before times, the crime geeks openly did was credit card fraud, phreaking, etc.
asia92 3y ago
I mean, there are tons of immoral projects on GitHub. Check out the ones that bypass ads on YouTube
- skrebbel 3y ago
  How is that even remotely in the same league?

127 3y ago

Crime is usually more effective if you shroud it in a cloud of gaslighting.

hutzlibu 3y ago

Oh, but their disclaimer says, they don't do crime: \s "Disclaimer: This program is provided for educational and research purposes only. The creator of this program does not condone or support any illegal or malicious activity" I guess it is a gang like mindset. Exploiting others and preying on the weak. And I am not that old, but I actually also do remember other and more dark hack activity from the past, than just warez.

skrebbel 3y ago
Sure, people were doing it, but they weren’t pretending it was a good thing on public github repos.
- op00to 3y ago
  What are you talking about? There were entire “demoscene” advertisements in pirated games back in the day touting the awesomeness of Razor 1911 or whatever.
  - hutzlibu 3y ago
    I would argue between cracking a game and stealing other peoples accounts and money, there are worlds.
  - skrebbel 3y ago
    I was referring to “more dark hack activity, than just warez”. Afaik razor didn't advertise “steal innocent people’s account” services in cutesy cracktros.

praash 3y ago

That guy is literally providing technical support in GH issues. No way. People complain about logging into stolen accounts and the developer is happy to help. There's a pinned page on how to disinfect your system, accompanied with a vibe of "should've been more careful, idiot!" Seeing this happy-OSS-community praise from someone providing a turn-key malware solution for even the most technologically incompetent jerks is just harrowing.

vasdae 3y ago
>Got hacked by Blank Grabber? Well, you should have taken care before downloading/opening suspicious files. He's not wrong.
- skrebbel 3y ago
  Got mugged? Well you should’ve avoided that neighbourhood.
  - vasdae 3y ago
    You should've voted better*
- ForestCritter 3y ago
  hmmm so when you do projects with people and someone you haven't heard from in a while shows up and wants to show you what they are working on your first thought should be to grill them in the third degree and ask them the color of their underwear to make sure it's them...
- _8j50 3y ago
  Being careful is not enough, you also have to be competent. You can be careful all you want, I had to expain to an HNer earlier for example how .js files on windows are actually native executable scripts. Is a lay person supposed to know that for example?
  - vasdae 3y ago

op00to 3y ago

Back in the before times, the crime geeks openly did was credit card fraud, phreaking, etc.

asia92 3y ago

I mean, there are tons of immoral projects on GitHub. Check out the ones that bypass ads on YouTube

skrebbel 3y ago
How is that even remotely in the same league?