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My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students. (programming.dev)
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[–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pro tip: Always use a program like binisoft windows firewall control

Look at companies like this. The software KNOWS it has been cracked but instead of disabling itself it sends home your info so you can get sued for copyright infringement

Ps: I'm curious to know the price of the geovia suite. I'm guessing it's a subscription and I'm guessing it's more than 10k per year

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or a firewall that doesn't rely on windows firewall, since programs will just whitelist themselves from it during installation

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don't have the admin rights anymore to control it

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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

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