• blady_blah@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I liked the random.exe that unmuted your computer, turned the volume to max, and said “hey everybody, I’m downloading pornography!”. My friend got a big kick out of that when he ran it at work. …ah, those were the days…

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Now they’ll install any random fucking app a company tells them to install. Oh, you want to see a menu at the restaurant? Just install this app. How about fuck you?

      • Kogasa@programming.dev
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        9 months ago

        Modern mobile OS’ and apps are quite strictly sandboxed so, with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store and Apple Store, you can reasonably safely install random crap and uninstall it later. It’s a different realm from running random binary executables.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store

          Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there’s been more over the years. Trusting apps “because play store” is horrible practice.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

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

    So much trust, or ignorance, or both lol