• jet@hackertalks.com
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    2 months ago

    This is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.

    Quite frankly in the bad old Napster days, when you downloaded random shit, if it only had a virus you were lucky, there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.

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      2 months ago

      Aren’t we still vulnerable through VMs, though? I seem to remember reading something about why Qubes OS is safer than a regular VM, having to do w/ zero trust, etc.

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        2 months ago

        Qubes has more layers to the security onion, its true.

        But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.

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      2 months ago

      My fave was spending a weekend downloading the good omens radio series to find it was Queen’s Greatest Hits

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      2 months ago

      there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.

      Yeah, like strange unreleased Weird Al tracks with sex and drugs references… Every spoof was labeled weird Al back in 2000