Huh did not know QBittorrent can search. I always use 1337x.to, which weirdly isn’t blocked on my ISP and hasn’t been for years, despite them blocking almost every other side. Also nyaa.si for anime stuff.
The thing that always worries me is that QBittorrent and VLC are surely full of security vulnerabilities… I did check the torrent library that QBittorrent uses and it at least has fuzzing set up but still… Makes me nervous. Haven’t been hacked ever and I haven’t heard about any infected files tbf. Honour among pirates perhaps.
Before I say anything I’m about to say I want it to be known I know absolutely fuck all about digital security. That being said:
My understanding is that pirates are more technologically literate and that “hacking” systems is now generally not worth the time and effort. The return on social engineering and phishing is so much higher and easier that they want easy prey instead of difficult. Obviously use common sense and don’t click Endgame.exe but it’s more profitable to steal from grandma on Facebook than Steven the pirate
Huh did not know QBittorrent can search. I always use 1337x.to, which weirdly isn’t blocked on my ISP and hasn’t been for years, despite them blocking almost every other side. Also nyaa.si for anime stuff.
The thing that always worries me is that QBittorrent and VLC are surely full of security vulnerabilities… I did check the torrent library that QBittorrent uses and it at least has fuzzing set up but still… Makes me nervous. Haven’t been hacked ever and I haven’t heard about any infected files tbf. Honour among pirates perhaps.
Before I say anything I’m about to say I want it to be known I know absolutely fuck all about digital security. That being said:
My understanding is that pirates are more technologically literate and that “hacking” systems is now generally not worth the time and effort. The return on social engineering and phishing is so much higher and easier that they want easy prey instead of difficult. Obviously use common sense and don’t click Endgame.exe but it’s more profitable to steal from grandma on Facebook than Steven the pirate
Yeah potentially, but I think pirates are also more likely to have bitcoin stashes available for stealing.
You’re probably right though - it’s just easier to use societal engineering.