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TheBlackAdder

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2. It should be noted that just because it's on Github does not mean malware is not embeded in it.
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 06:27 AM
Mar 2023

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Always use caution when using 3rd-Party mods.

You don't know the origin, many use open-sourced code which is rife with tracking and malware code. No one really evaluates open-source, they just use it and assume others are monitoring it. Sonotype found over a billion sections of malware in open-source projects, as the development communities have been infiltrated by hackers and nation state actors. The only people really tearing apart OS code are college academia, hackers and rogue state actors.

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