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I am more interested in the malware by russians distributed instead or along the movie rip than in the movie.
by catlikesshrimp 2y ago
I am more interested in the malware by russians distributed instead or along the movie rip than in the movie.
- HPsquared 2y agoOfficial media is more likely to come with malware. Sony rootkits being one infamous example. Or, depending on perspective, all the "telemetry" and advertising built-in to Windows these days.
- chasil 2y agoThis is the classic example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
- redrove 2y agoAn MKV file is virtually safe for all intents and purposes. Sure there could be some kind of vuln in the media player you’re using to open it and it could contain a payload but there’s so many media player and OS combinations that this becomes extremely unlikely. I have never heard of this happening.
- progbits 2y agoAren't most media players (by market share) just wrapper around, most often out of date, libffmpeg? Famously a huge pile of old C/assembly? I'm not shitting on ffmpeg, it's a great project but let's call it what it is. "Virtually safe" is nowhere near accurate.
- vagrantJin 2y agoHaha, you are most certainly shitting on ffmpeg, however politely you might go about it.
- progbits 2y agoI meant it like: it's the best we got, but that doesn't mean it's perfect.