[HN Gopher] Don't Use Thorium Browser - If Installed, Remove It
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       Don't Use Thorium Browser - If Installed, Remove It
        
       Author : brycewray
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-12-14 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (old.reddit.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (old.reddit.com)
        
       | AussieWog93 wrote:
       | Apparently the dev embedded child porn in the browser itself, as
       | an Easter egg? WTAF...
        
         | 127361 wrote:
         | There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's
         | going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some
         | unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on
         | it.
         | 
         | These crazy laws need to go, it's a modern 21st Century form of
         | morality policing[1]. Distributing or creating such material
         | needs to be illegal. Possession with intent to distribute, as
         | well. But _not_ simple possession.
         | 
         | Such material can be easily generated locally with AI with no
         | risk of detection by law enforcement, and planted into people's
         | web browser caches or other temporary storage so easily. The
         | government is basically giving any sophisticated hacker or
         | state actor (e.g. Russia) a push-button way of destroying any
         | political opponent with ease.
         | 
         | If you live in a Western country and criticize a Russian
         | political figure too much, well the FSB is going to put child
         | porn on your computer. They've already been caught doing
         | precisely that. [2]
         | 
         | 1.
         | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485652311936...
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         | 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History
        
       | Crosseye_Jack wrote:
       | So that's why I was getting spammed by GitHub that one of my
       | repos contained "adult content"
       | 
       | I had a fork of the Atom editor on my account and apparently it's
       | somehow tied to this individual...
        
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