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		chaxor on Aug 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VLC Banned in India? There are quite a few articles alleging that VLC contains 'malware', or 'chinese hacker urls'. I know the software is available on gitlab (although they typically ignore pull requests). Has anyone spun up VLC in a VM and monitored the attempts for network access to check any of this? I imagine that if any group would get to the bottom of this, it would be HN.

ohiovr on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

I'm not up on the latest but a long time ago someone purchased a similar domain or a better domain than the original developers and they cooked their own version that had bad ingredients.

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