My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.devimage Timely_Jellyfish_2077 ( @Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev ) Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-227 days ago message-square75fedilinkarrow-up1274
arrow-up1274imageMy college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.dev Timely_Jellyfish_2077 ( @Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev ) Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-227 days ago message-square75fedilink
minus-square Lojcs ( @Lojcs@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-227 days agoIt’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already
minus-square Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•27 days agoFrom my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser
It’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already
From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user
The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser