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Do y'all still consider the machine you run pirated software/games on to still be "Secure"? [+ Other Piracy Related Questions] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure if this fits here...

An OPSEC community would probably say no, so I probably don't need to ask in those communities. But I'm curious about a (digital) pirate's perspective on this issue...

I mean, the sources listed here are supposedly "safe" right? But honestly, how much would you trust these "safe" sources?

When doing sensitive tasks like banking or filing taxes, do you:

Use a different OS on the same machine? (Dualboot)
Or put the pirated content inside a virtual machine?
Or just use a completely separate computer?

And since PC is much different than a Smartphone:

Would the extra sandboxing on Smartphones make pirating games on a Smartphone much safer compared to on a PC? (Not that there are much mobile games worth playing, just curious)

(PC in this context referring to all personal computers, regardless of OS)

And last question:

Non-installed/non-executable files such as .mp4 .mkv .mp3 .pdf .epub, are mostly safe right? I mean, you are using another program to opening it, not executing a file, there aren't much attack vectors as long as the video player / ebook viewer is up to date right? (Or am I understanding it wrong?)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clean copies of GOG games can be hash-checked. The only pirated games I really fuck with are GOG.

Although I wouldn't be too worried even if I did because I'm in Linux, and anything I did would be sandboxed and closed off from the rest of the system since it's running in a compatibility layer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

A compatibility layer like Wine is not a replacement for a true sandbox. Although Wine may have some basic sandboxing capabilities, the default wine configuration grants access to your home directory, which something like ransomware could take advantage of.