Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-22 年前My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.devimagemessage-square83linkfedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down12
arrow-up1317arrow-down1imageMy college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students.programming.devTimely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-22 年前message-square83linkfedilink
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 年前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
minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 年前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
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