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Yes, but this is a specific safety mechanism, why this is over others?
by charcircuit 1y ago
Yes, but this is a specific safety mechanism, why this is over others?
- chisleu 1y agoIt's simple for the malware to check. For instance, you don't want to hit a Russian oligarch's laptop w/ ransomware just because his GPS says he is in another country. You don't want to trust the outbound ip because they might be on a VPN, etc. This is more broad and simple and easy. Can you think of a better way?
- charcircuit 1y agoYou could check what language the operating is set to, or the browser bookmarks /history to name a couple. Checking installed keyboards is somewhat obscure and sounds like something someone cleverly came up with and I'm interested in how is sprea
- zarzavat 1y agoLanguage wouldn't work, many bilingual people prefer to have their UI language set to English even if it's not their native language.
- make3 1y agoconvergent evolution
- charcircuit 1y agoIf you look at how it's compiled you can tell if it's using the same code, or if they converged to use similar strategies.