An OPSEC community would probably say no, so I probably don't need to ask in those communities. But I'm curious about a (digital) pirate's perspective on this issue...

I mean, the sources listed here are supposedly "safe" right? But honestly, how much would you trust these "safe" sources?

When doing sensitive tasks like banking or filing taxes, do you:

Use a different OS on the same machine? (Dualboot)
Or put the pirated content inside a virtual machine?
Or just use a completely separate computer?

And since PC is much different than a Smartphone:

Would the extra sandboxing on Smartphones make pirating games on a Smartphone much safer compared to on a PC? (Not that there are much mobile games worth playing, just curious)

(PC in this context referring to all personal computers, regardless of OS)

And last question:

Non-installed/non-executable files such as .mp4 .mkv .mp3 .pdf .epub, are mostly safe right? I mean, you are using another program to opening it, not executing a file, there aren't much attack vectors as long as the video player / ebook viewer is up to date right? (Or am I understanding it wrong?)

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[–] kaprap@leminal.space 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I run a few games posted by johncena141 on 1337x, so I consider it secure enough :p

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If that dude hacked into your machine, you wouldn't see him anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He'd be using Bing (search engine) and be Chilling

[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago

vine boom sound plays

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He'd probably just upgrade your drivers to the latest stable version for your distro and fix all those W: prints you see whenever a guide tells you to "sudo apt update".

You know who you are and you're me.