There's this file
>Matlab 2017a Linux x86-64
on Pirate Bay I'd like to install on my PC.
What are the chances a Russian hacker is going to steal my shit?
Is pirate sofware on Linux safe?
Christian Lewis
Hunter Ross
download it and never connect to the internet again or use a virtual machine. problem solved.
Angel James
Think of it like this. Whoever made the exploit know enough about programing to reverse engineer a peace of software, push it to assembly, make scene of the gibberish, find way to make a jump in the code so it will skip the verification process and run.
And as put quite a bit of time in to doing so.
And than uploaded it online for free with no strings attached.
Chances are he knows a lot more than you and you're gonna get a free rootkit with your install.
Dominic Miller
this is aimed specifically at Linux, so they're either a well mannered math pirate or a guy that put a script in that somewhere that will fuck your shit up
Chase Cox
chroot
Mason Edwards
>download it and never connect to the internet again or use a virtual machine. problem solved.
Virtual machines are slow and laggy.
What is some extra lightweight distro I could test this on?
Brandon Allen
Noted, thanks.
I have already downloaded like half of it.
Do I have to reinstall Linux again or I can just delete the file?
Austin Gutierrez
lubuntu
Oliver Richardson
>512MB RAM (2GB recommended, based on latest Ubuntu requirements)
en.wikipedia.org
O-ok.
Colton Harris
Which one of these?
alpinelinux.org
They seem lightweight enough.
Jack Brooks
I, personally, would reinstall Linux twice
Ian Jackson
>lying on the internet
You are uninformed.
What you are describing is Xubuntu.
David Perry
ps. (for the uninformed cuck)
Jordan Reed
Tyler Roberts
>With 512MB of RAM, you don't need to worry much.
>916 MB
>Lightweight.
O-ok.
Justin White
I downloaded Lubuntu but I can't find information about how to verify the ISO.
Easton Thompson
use a vm with windoze and install it there
Asher Ortiz
I'd have to install a cracked version of Windows.
If I can find a working and safe lightweight version of Linux, I think it would be better.
Joshua Garcia
I am literally a javascriptkiddy and spend the majority of my time developing for the front end
sometimes i find something i want to use but don't want to pay for it so I run it in olydebug and fuck with jmp's until it does what i want it to do.
i've done that to winrar so it stops showing me adds
i've done it to FL studio so it doesn't ask me to buy it and loads all my VSTs
i've done that to adobe photoshop cc 2017 so it doesn't ask me to buy it or use any of the cloud functionality
sometimes people do that shit because they don't want to pay for it
Joseph Hernandez
If you enable vt-d and vt-x VMs are fine. I also have access to VMWare Workstation Pro 14 through my school though, virtualbox performance is -ok- but not amazing.
Dylan Jenkins
I installed Mint on a virtual machine.
I will report back if the thread is still up.
Andrew Williams
What scene?
Jason Lee
MB
>>not lightweight.
Isaiah Ward
>Virtual machines are slow and laggy.
Have you not witnessed the p o w e r of QEMU-KVM?
Jacob Taylor
I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox.
Ryder Rivera
Surprisingly, it seems like it is running smoothly.
Yes, there's a typo somewhere in the secreenshot.
I made a clone just in case also.
Thanks everyone for the help.
Aiden Jones
>Matlab 2017a Linux x86-64
Use GNU Octave, you fucking proprietary faggot
Logan Jenkins
you can run it as a separate user with restricted privileges and firewall it via iptables -m owner
Daniel Edwards
This is what sketches me out the most. Ever since I started my CS degree and actually started to learn a bit about computer security, I've been sketched out at pirating any sort of software that I used to naively download all the time a few years ago.
That being said if you need matlab for school, usually your school will offer free or discount licenses.
Caleb Baker
Encrypt your drives and dual boot a separate OS for all your pirated applications/games and disable networking.
That's pretty much the only reason I still have Windows.
John Gray
You want the truth? Nobody knows.
Aiden Gomez
>Matlab 2017a
kek
you plan to cheat on math homework instead of solving it your own