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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw a video on this yesterday. Apparently it's a crypto scam thing.
It's kind of obvious too, because it's when you went to click the "download torrent" it'd give you a zipped file with an .EXE inside called something like torrentdownloader.exe or something like that.
I mean, it's obvious for those of us that's been around the block of course, but maybe not for grandma or little billy. Although I don't know why they'd have crypto..

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Poor new Linux users. You choose a good starting distribution. This sucks hard. Linux isos are not exe files. You can also check the hashes, but I don't know anyone that does that on their personal PC.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised

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  • Its been more than 24h and the site is still down. It only loads the main page but all links are dead.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hopefully this motivates distro makers to secure their services a little bit more than xubuntu never did. Plenty distro still serve files under unsecure connections.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That’s like stealing from a charity. Goddamn malwarians.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I thought that project was dead long ago

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