@[email protected] to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-227 days agoMy college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.devmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1318
arrow-up1318imageMy college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.dev@[email protected] to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-227 days agomessage-square76fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•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@[email protected]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