NPM package deletes all files when detects Russian IP

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[–]BravoVictor 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wow, some of the comments are actually quite sickening, and is good proof that Kyiv are not the "good guys". The scumbag user solofeed at the end arguing, yeah, the code is hurting innocent people, but that's ok because it'll make those victims aware of the war.

First, everyone's aware of it. Second, victimizing innocent people to advertise that you're allegedly a victim is not going to pan out how you expect. If someone robs my house, that doesn't give me the right to rob a stranger to make them aware that there's robbers in the neighborhood.

I wonder if solofeed is sad about the people his government has been murdering in Donbass? Or if he thinks people should delete all the files on his computer to punish him for something his corrupt government is doing?

[–]asterias 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

This kind of thinking has been around since the nasty author of cdrwin had coded his software to destroy your files when it thought you had a pirated copy. He had some bastards who claimed to be "cd authorities" shilling his software while hiding all those traps and other bugs that were unacceptable for such an expensive piece of software.

[–]hej 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is a program called LANViewer, it was given away on giveaweay sites a lot, well it would take screenshots of your desktop and send them to the dev. I caught it using an advanced HIPS firewall.