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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 9 months ago

somebody stored their tapes in the glove bkx.

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 9 months ago

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

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

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 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