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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[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the games I pirate are all in my Lutris app which I installed as a flatpak on Linux, so they don't have the necessary permissions to change important files.

also I install them in the virtual C: drive, and they normally shouldn't thouch the virtual Z: drive. I don't think a hack would do that because installing malware on the windows drive should be enough for most people pirating games

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the new rabbit hole 😂