So he “repacked” it and either A. Was dumb enough to not verify wtf he was repacking, or B. Intentionally added the miner.

Don’t look like a real smart cookie with either option lmfao

Does that user have other popular uploads that might disappear if they were banned?

It’s entirely possible that whatever cracker they got their upload from snuck the miner in without the uploader’s knowledge. Always a lot of iffs when nobody will ever really know the truth.

Not the first time weird drama has happened in the torrent scenes and won’t be the last. Just more reinforcement to scan all your downloads and consider sandboxing them until you’ve proven them to be clean

This is how the Internet has always been, and it shall be how the Internet continues on.

Of course but it’s usually pretty easy to filter out the false positives that always appear as a Trojan (because of the file modification payload) vs a crypto miner

If you aren’t scanning every software you download, whether a pirate torrent or normal direct download, that’s kinda your own fault

Oh right the dev’s instance hadn’t blocked them (because they support lemmygrad).

Well my instance did defed from lemmygrad. So this is still end running around everyone else’s defederation. And still is not a meme.

It’s not even a meme and you’re in a meme subreddit dude. I am only exceptionally confused

So like, where’s the meme dude? Did you forget it?

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Ah, so you guys are just using alts to end run around defederation now.

Me who is using Firefox web app on my home screen: “huh?”

It’s a post from hexbear. It doesn’t mean anything.

No, it’s actually:
“Now that we’ve gotten everyone locked into one service, let’s squeeze them for every single cent we can until they pop!”

It’s literally capitalsim’s job and it will never change.

Tankies in the comments preparing to take it VERY seriously