VLC Banned in India?(code.videolan.org)

2 pointsby chaxor4 jaar geleden3 comments

code.videolan.org

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27229

3 comments

chaxor4 jaar geleden

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.

ohiovr4 jaar geleden

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.

dredmorbius4 jaar geleden

Discussed 12 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911