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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 72 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The thought of clicking on some random.exe hurt me a little inside...

So much trust, or ignorance, or both lol

[–] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How do you think we got to this level of distrust?

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even then was a bad move. Speaking from experience.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

When we were kids we'd download Trojans with fancy UIs for pranks from random websites and install them on each others computers.

How that didn't massively backfire I have no idea, I mean it was before internet banking or even really buying stuff online but still. Yikes.

[–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Abuse of trust by hackers, scammers, thieves and other scum on the internet that try to min-max criminality.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

You don't have a burner machine?

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Morbid curiosity

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

What about putting a drink in the dvd drive?