[–] chaxor 3y ago ↗ There are quite a few articles alleging that VLC contains 'malware', or 'chinese hacker urls'.I know the software is available on gitlab (although they typically ignore pull requests).Has anyone spun up VLC in a VM and monitored the attempts for network access to check any of this?I imagine that if any group would get to the bottom of this, it would be HN. [–] ohiovr 3y ago ↗ I'm not up on the latest but a long time ago someone purchased a similar domain or a better domain than the original developers and they cooked their own version that had bad ingredients.
[–] ohiovr 3y ago ↗ I'm not up on the latest but a long time ago someone purchased a similar domain or a better domain than the original developers and they cooked their own version that had bad ingredients.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 18.7 ms ] threadI know the software is available on gitlab (although they typically ignore pull requests).
Has anyone spun up VLC in a VM and monitored the attempts for network access to check any of this?
I imagine that if any group would get to the bottom of this, it would be HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911